What is preexisting strength? Predicting free association probabilities, similarity ratings, and cued recall probabilities

From: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Measuring lexical knowledge poses a challenge to the study of the influence of preexisting knowledge on the retrieval of new memories. Many tasks focus on word pairs, but words are embedded in associative networks, so how should preexisting pair strength be measured? It has been measured by free association, similarity ratings, and co-occurrence statistics. Researchers interpret free association response probabilities as unbiased estimates of forward cue-to-target strength. In Study 1, analyses of large free association and extralist cued recall databases indicate that this interpretation is ...

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