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Semantic meaning and associative responding
Author(s) -
FLEKKØY KJELL
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1975.tb00176.x
Subject(s) - associative property , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , semantic similarity , stimulus–response model , cognitive psychology , semantic memory , associative learning , word association , linguistics , natural language processing , cognition , perception , computer science , neuroscience , mathematics , psychoanalysis , pure mathematics , philosophy
.— The hypothesis tested was that the search for a response word in a single word, free association situation proceeds in the direction of decreasing semantic similarity between the stimulus and response words. Semantic features were assigned to the 50 first Kent‐Rosanoff words and each of the three most frequent response words to each stimulus word, obtained in a single word, free association situation (N =176). An index for the number of semantic features shared by the stimulus and response words was found to decrease with increasing response latency, thus confirming the hypothesis. The findings further supports the assumption that semantic meanings of stimulus and response words are determinants of free. associative responding.