Associative reaction time, meaningfulness, and pronunciability ratings of 382 words and paralogs

Abstract

A list of 75 CVCVC words and paralogs were assessed for associative reaction time, meaningfulness (a' , rated association frequency), and pronunciability. Uncorrected split-half reliability coefficients of correlation were, respectively, .97, .89, and .90_ Intercorrelat.ions were consistent with those of a list of 319 CVCVCs previously assessed for associative reaction time, meaningfulness (a'), and pronunciability. Sixty-three of the 75 CVCVCs were added to the list of 319. Intercorrelations among the assessment variables for the combined list of 382 CVCVCs were highly consistent with the intercorrelations based on the list of 319. This larger alphabetically ordered single list of 382 CVCVC words and paralogs containing all three assessment values will facilitate selection of units for the purposes of research.

A comparison of three methods of measuring recognition memory in high and low academic achievers

“…Thirty~ix target items and 72 distractors were randomly selected from Ley and Tesiny's (1975) list of 382 words and paralogs, with the single restriction that none of the items shared formal (structural) similarity with respect to their first three letters; that is, no two of the first three letters of any of the 108 items (36 targets plus 72 distractors) were the same.…”