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The age at which words are first learned appears to be more influential in determining the ease of retrieving words from semantic memory than objective frequency, familiarity, imagery, and meaningfulness. To facilitate research on a wider variety of tasks, we present norms for 543 words for age-of-acquisition, imagery, familiarity, and meaningfulness. Most of the words form single-solution anagrams. There are 471 six-letter nouns and 72 five-letter words. Also reported are the means, SDs, and ranges for each dimension and the intercorrelations between dimensions. Intergroup reliabilities ranged from .847 to .982.
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Stratton, R. P., Jacobus, K. A., & Brinley, B. Characteristics of nouns which determine ease of solving anagrams. Manuscript submitted for publication, 1974.
Jacobus, K. A., & Stratton, R. P. Age-of-acquisition ratings for Pavio’s 928 nouns. (Available from Kenneth A. Jacobus, Psychology Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506).
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The collection of the norms was made possible in part by grants from the University of Kentucky Research Foundation and in part by the generous assistance of Joe Prus and Chris Sahley.
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Stration, R.P., Jacobus, K.A. & Brinley, B. Age-of-acquisition, imagery, familiarity and meaningfulness norms for 543 words. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation 7, 1–6 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03201278
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03201278