Interest value, meaningfulness, and familiarity of words: relations with other word properties.
Evaluation of different properties of words and the relations among them is of value for understanding languages and as a basis for research. In the present study we investigated relations among interest value, familiarity, and meaningfulness of words. We also investigated the relations of these properties with imagery, concreteness, emotionality, frequency, date of entry into the language, word length, and amplitude of skin conductance response. A total of 85 university students received a list of 25 word pairs, each pair comprised of a concrete and an abstract noun with related meanings, e.g., "friend" and "friendship," and rated the interest value, familiarity, and meaningfulness of each word. Familiarity correlated significantly with meaningfulness and interest value.
Campos
Alfredo
A
University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Psicología Básica, Spain. pscampos@usc.es
Marcos
José Luís
JL
González
María Angeles
MA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D001288:Attention; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012660:Semantics; D012737:Sex Factors