Citation

Gagné CL, Spalding TL. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 2006; 32(6): 1431-7; discussion 1438-42.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. cgagne@ualberta.ca

Comment On:

J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 2005;31(1):169-74

Erratum On

J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 2007;33(2):458

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/0278-7393.32.6.1431

PMID

17087595

PMCID

PMC3032426

Abstract

C. L. Gagné and E. Shoben (1997) proposed that the conceptual system contains information about how concepts are used to modify other concepts and that this relational information influences the ease with which concepts combine. Recently, E. J. Wisniewski and G. L. Murphy suggested that C. L. Gagné and E. Shoben's measure of relation availability was confounded with familiarity and plausibility and that the participants could simply retrieve the stored meanings of the phrases because the phrases were not novel. In this article, the authors demonstrate that E. J. Wisniewski and G. L. Murphy's plausibility and familiarity judgments are dependent variables that (a) are themselves responsive to changes in relation availability, (b) modifier relation availability predicts response time even when the influence of phrase familiarity and plausibility is controlled, and (c) the materials consisted of mainly novel phrases.

Language: en