Effects of solution word attributes on anagram difficulty: A regression analysis |
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Authors: | K J Gilhooly C E Johnson |
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a Psychology Department, University College London, London, U.K.
b Psychology Department, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, U.K. |
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Abstract: | A sample of 45 student subjects provided solution scores for 80 five-letter anagrams. These scores were analysed as a function of solution word imagery, con-creteness, familiarity, objective frequency, age-of-acquisition and associative meaningfulness using multiple regression techniques. Two bigram measures together with number of vowels, nature of starting letter (vowel or consonant), anagram pronounceability and anagram-solution similarity scores were also entered into the regression equations. The bigram measures, the starting letter and anagram-solution similarity emerged as having significant associations with the solution scores. Previous reports of imagery effects in anagram are discussed in the light of the present results. |
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