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Relation Availability Was Not Confounded with Familiarity or Plausibility in Gagne and Shoben (1997): Comment on Wisniewski and Murphy (2005)
Gagne, Christina L.; Spalding, Thomas L.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v32 n6 p1431-1437 Nov 2006
C. L. Gagne 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 (see record EJ689195) suggested that C. L. Gagne 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.
Descriptors: Familiarity, Reaction Time
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