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Naming and classifying: Intelligence and frequency effects
Author(s) -
Hermelin B.,
O'Connor N.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1982.tb01818.x
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , word lists by frequency , cognitive psychology , word (group theory) , free recall , cognition , audiology , developmental psychology , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , neuroscience , sentence
Intellectually gifted children and controls were compared on their ability to name and classify words and pictures of high or low frequency. High IQ children had shorter response latencies than other children and also showed no word frequency effects in the word naming tasks. When having to recall or recognize words of different frequency in a second experiment, no significant frequency effects in recognition were found for either group. With recall, the frequency effect was only significant for the control but not for the gifted children. The results are discussed in terms of ‘relative’ and ‘absolute’ frequencies of words and pictures, and in relation to similar lexical search and comparison processes involved in the naming and the recall of words.