Word Association

Grammatical, Semantic, and Affective Dimensions of Associates to Homonyms

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ID13659770
AuthorsRoy B Mefferd (Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Houston, corresponding author)
Year1979
Volume45
Issue2
Pages359-374
Publication date1979-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1979.45.2.359
PMID550866
OpenAlexW2161203596
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited15

Scoring schema of word associations for grammatical form, affective and semantic-syntactic associates were developed using factor analyses of logically developed schema. The schema evolved over the past 20 yr. with hundreds of ambiguous words and a thousand subjects of several normal and patient categories. The procedures, rationales, and results of the three schema are presented with the factor structures obtained with 100 normal adult males with mean education at the high school level. The interactions between these dimensions that relate to the organization and size of the associative networks with a number of nomothetic and psychometric variables were examined. Virtually no cross-over between the affective and semantic associative networks was noted. A significant difference was noted, however, in the faulting behaviors with the two networks

Associative property · Cognitive psychology · Information retrieval · Linguistics · Schema (genetic algorithms · Word Association · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Computer Science · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Psychology

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