Accession Number : ADA012897

Title :   The Hierarchical Ordering of Preference for Relations in Solving Verbal Analogy Items.

Descriptive Note : Technical rept.,

Corporate Author : MINNESOTA UNIV MINNEAPOLIS DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Personal Author(s) : Monson,Eileen Q. ; Dawis,Rene' V.

Report Date : FEB 1975

Pagination or Media Count : 34

Abstract : Verbal analogy items were constructed consisting of an ambiguous stimulus word pair and two unambiguous response word pairs as choice alternatives. (Two relations are educible from ambiguous word pairs, but only one relation from unambiguous word pairs.) Both response alternatives were 'correct.' The items were presented to subjects in a counterbalanced design to discover if preferences exist between the two competing relations in each item. The data were analyzed to see if these preferences ordered themselves into a hierarchy.

Descriptors :   *PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS, *WORD ASSOCIATION, REASONING, SEMANTICS, WORDS(LANGUAGE), AWARENESS, ANALOGIES.

Subject Categories : LINGUISTICS
      PSYCHOLOGY

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

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