Property norms for typical and atypical items from 17 categories a description and discussion

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AuthorsAshcraftOAMark H.

Year1978

JournalMemory & Cognition

DOI10.3758/bf03197450

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Abstract A description is presented of normative data for property responses to 121 words— 17 category labels, three typical and three atypical members of each category , and the words “plant” and “animal.” The production frequency of properties is considered a ... $\backslash$n

LanguageEnglish

Norms collectedproperty dominance, semantic relatedness, typicality

Stimuli typewords

Stimuli count121

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property dominance (cronbach alpha)

semantic relatedness (cronbach alpha)

typicality (cronbach alpha)

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Subjects were told that the task involved writing down the 'properties and characteristics that people generally attribute to various objects or things.... In general, the properties you write down can be introduced by the words 'is,' 'has,' 'can,' or 'is a' [examples provided), although other kinds of properties are equally permissible and may also be written down.'

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Property norms for typical and atypical items from 17 categories a description and discussion

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