The Effect of Semantic Structure on Descriptions of Similarity

作     者：Tweney, Ryan D. 

作者机构：Department of Psychology Bowling Green State University Bowling Green OH 43403 United States 

出 版 物：《Journal of General Psychology》 (J. Gen. Psychol.)

年 卷 期：1976年第94卷第1期

页      面：3-17页

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位）] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 1301[艺术学-艺术学理论] 0101[哲学-哲学] 04[教育学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 

基　　金：National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH U.S. Public Health Service, USPHS, (39364) 

摘      要：Stimulus items consisting of English words from nonoverlapping semantic clusters were presented in pairs to subjects (39 American undergraduates) who were asked how each pair was similar. Strategies used in the verbal comparison task were classified into types, and the types related to the type of stimulus pair presented. Multivariate scaling procedures were used to determine clusters of strategy usage. Certain strategies were characteristically applied as a function of pair type, but not all structural differences among stimulus words were represented in the strategies used. It is suggested that hierarchical models of semantic memory are not sufficient to represent word meanings, as revealed in a task of this nature. © 1976 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.