Does color influence anagram solution speed?

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Steele ◽  
Eva Putnam ◽  
Angela Ayers ◽  
Samantha Tracy ◽  
Emily Antolic
Keyword(s):  
Anagram Solution

Effect of word frequency restriction on anagram solution.

1969 ◽  
Vol 79 (3, Pt.1) ◽  
pp. 545-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed M. Edmonds ◽  
Marvin R. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Anagram Solution

Solving Anagrams: Category Priming and the Differential Availability of Category Solutions

1979 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Schuberth ◽  
Kathryn T. Spoehr ◽  
Robert J. Haertel
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Solution Word ◽  
Anagram Solution ◽  
Taxonomic Category ◽  
Category Priming ◽  
The Relationship

An experiment was performed to test the hypothesis that the effect of category name priming on anagram solving varies with the strength of the relationship between the solution word and the priming category. Subjects solved anagrams of taxonomic category instances under primed or unprimed conditions. In the primed condition, the name of the taxonomic category from which the solution word was chosen was provided on each trial. Priming was shown to facilitate anagram solution and the extent of this facilitation was directly related to the instance dominance of the solution word in the priming category. The results were discussed in terms of current models of semantic memory.

Anagram solution as a function of instructions, priming, and imagery.

1972 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene M. Jablonski ◽  
John H. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Anagram Solution

Individual Differences in Anagram-Solving Ability

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 799-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald A. Mendelsohn ◽  
Barbara B. Griswold ◽  
Milton L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Digit Span ◽  
Stroop Test ◽  
Anagram Solution ◽  
Adequate Level ◽  
Two Factors

Anagram solution was, as expected, significantly correlated with level of vocabulary ( r = .29), but, while high anagram scores are associated with high vocabulary, low anagram scores are as often associated with high as with low vocabulary. MMPI measures of Anxiety and Repression were unrelated to anagram solution. In a second study, as predicted, Mednick's RAT, the Gottschaldt Figures Test and an incidental recall measure were significantly correlated with anagram solution ( r = .43, .40, and .31, respectively, multiple R = .55), but the Stroop test, an incidental recognition measure and digit span measures were not. Two factors apparently underlie anagram solving ability—an adequate level of familiarity with words and the ability to shift attention in a directed but flexible manner.

Performance of Male Schizophrenics on An Anagram-Solution Task: An Application of An S-R Mediation Model

1973 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard S. Klibanoff ◽  
Joseph G. Phelan ◽  
Vernon L. Kiker
Keyword(s):  
Solution Word ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Equal Frequency ◽  
Anagram Solution ◽  
Group I ◽  
Group Ii

2 groups of 15 volunteer schizophrenic Ss each worked on 20 word-anagram problems. The anagrams for Group I were the solutions for Group II, and vice versa. Each of the last 10 problem pairs represented a test of the mediation model's prediction that faster solution times will occur when the anagram has a low Thorndike-Lorge frequency and the solution word has a high Thorndike-Lorge frequency. Results strongly confirm this prediction. When anagram and solution were of equal frequency, faster solution times tended to be equally distributed among the two groups. Distinct deficits were evident in the performance of schizophrenics. Over-all results indicate the model is applicable for a schizophrenic sample.

Distribution of Anagram Solution Times

1966 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira T. Kaplan ◽  
Thomas Carvellas ◽  
Barbara J. Breinin
Keyword(s):  
Anagram Solution

Rule Learning and Rule Interference in Trigram Encodings

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 921-927
Author(s):  
John A. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Rule Learning ◽  
Solution Time ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Anagram Solution ◽  
Single Solution ◽  
Respective Solution ◽  
Order Rule

The discovery and use of transformational rules as well as subsequent interference among such rules was investigated. 24 single-solution trigrams were permuted from their respective solution-words by a uniform letter-order rule (LOR) and assigned to one of 2 lists. LORs were either the same for both lists or different. Two control groups were included to assess the effects of practice on anagram solution and of prior rule-learning experience. Ss were simply asked to discover and say aloud the solution words. There was no suggestion that rules could be formulated. Comparisons among conditions using mean median solution time for successive blocks of list-items indicated that (a) practice has no effect on solution time with nonrule materials, (b) encoding rule learning does occur, and (c) when rules are changed (List I to List II) solution time increases significantly, i.e., encoding rule interference results.

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