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One minute of continued word association was shown to yield both the Noble (1952) and Noble & Parker (1960) indicant of meaningfulness, m, and the Bilodeau & Howell (1965) indicant of probability of response occurrence. The probability values (proportion of Ss giving particular responses) were determined over the entire period of response production as well as for the initial group of three responses. The median ordinal position of response occurrence was also calculated. The probability values of the present study correlated positively with those obtained by Bilodeau & Howell. Over the restricted range studied, these p values did not correlate significantly with median ordinal position.
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This study was conducted while the author was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Supporting Research Laboratory, U. S. Army Human Engineering Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The cooperation extended by Dr. John D. Weisz, Chief, and members of his staff is gratefully acknowledged.
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Andreas, B.G. Indicants of response strength hierarchies in continued word association. Psychon Sci 6, 447–448 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328084
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