RECOGNITION MEMORY FOR NOUNS AS A FUNCTION OF ABSTRACTNESS AND FREQUENCY
RECOGNITION MEMORY FOR NOUNS AS A FUNCTION OF ABSTRACTNESS AND FREQUENCY
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10.1037/h0040561
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发表时间:
1961-01-01
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通讯作者:
GORMAN, AM
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GORMAN, AM
" An operational definition of abstractness in nouns was constructed by using the human discriminative response to identify two points on a scale of abstractness. This scale, consisting of 490'abstract'and 571'concrete'nouns, was found to have adequate reliability. When the scale was manipulated as an independent variable, the effect of abstractness on short-term recognition memory was highly significant,'abstract'nouns being less well remembered than'concrete'nouns. Frequency was found to be pertinent variable, independent of abstractness, very frequent nouns being less well remembered than some-what rarer nouns."(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)