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"All-Purpose Responses" (APR) in Verbal Behaviour

Author(s) -

Shlomo Breznitz

Publication year - 1973

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383097301600205

Subject(s) - word association , psychology , association (psychology) , associative property , cognitive psychology , situational ethics , subject (documents) , normative , word (group theory) , word lists by frequency , associative learning , linguistics , social psychology , mathematics , computer science , sentence , philosophy , epistemology , library science , psychoanalysis , pure mathematics , psychotherapist

In the word-association paradigm a response given by a subject to two or more different stimuli was defined as an "all-purpose response" (APR) on the individual level. A response having" high-frequency of occurrence to two or more stimuli in word-association norms was defined as an APR on the normative level. The different APR's of a subject are grouped in his APR-class. On the basis of analysis of these concepts it was hypothesized that: (1) The availability of APR's to many different stimuli reduces their specific associative bonds, and (2) APR's are used when, because of undifferentiated response hierarchies, the word-association task is especially difficult for the individual. Both hypotheses were confirmed by the data. Some situational and linguistic factors determining APR's are discussed.

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