The Effect of Word Anagrams High and Low in Association Value on Solution Times
Bart Charles Rossi, John F. Walsh, Donald J. Dillon · The Journal of General Psychology · 1976
Summary Sixty male and female undergraduates were requested to solve one group of five letter word anagrams high in free association value and a similar group low in association value. It was expected the two groups of word anagrams would reflect significant differences with regard to Ss' solution times. As hypothesized, Ss' performances indicated that word anagrams high in association value were more difficult to solve than the word anagrams low in association value (p < .01). Apparently word anagrams high in association value bring about a great number of possibilities which interfere with the correct solution.