Paivio: Paivio, Yuille & Madigan Word Pool
In WordPools: Word Pools Used in Studies of Learning and Memory

Paivio

R Documentation

Paivio, Yuille & Madigan Word Pool

Description

The Paivio, Yuille & Madigan (1968) word pool contains 925 nouns, together with average ratings of these words on imagery, concreteness and meaningfulness, along with other variables.

Usage

data(Paivio)

Format

A data frame with 925 observations on the following 9 variables.

itmno: item number
word: the word
imagery: imagery rating
concreteness: concreteness rating
meaningfulness: meaningfulness rating
frequency: word frequency, from the Kucera-Francis norms
syl: number of syllables
letters: number of letters
freerecall: Free recall proportion, added from Christian et al (1978)

Details

The freerecall variable has 27 NAs.

Source

Paivio, A., Yuille, J.C. & Madigan S. Concreteness, imagery and meaningfulness for 925 nouns. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Monograph Supplement, 1968, 76, No.1, pt.2.

Christian, J., Bickley, W., Tarka, M., & Clayton, K. (1978). Measures of free recall of 900 English nouns: Correlations with imagery, concreteness, meaningfulness, and frequency. Memory & Cognition, 6, 379-390.

References

Kucera and Francis, W.N. (1967). Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English. Providence: Brown University Press.

Rubin, D. C. & Friendly, M. (1986). Predicting which words get recalled: Measures of free recall, availability, goodness, emotionality, and pronunciability for 925 nouns. Memory and Cognition, 14, 79-94.

Examples

data(Paivio)
summary(Paivio)
plot(Paivio[,c(3:5,9)])

# density plots

plotDensity(Paivio, "imagery")
plotDensity(Paivio, "concreteness")
plotDensity(Paivio, "meaningfulness")
plotDensity(Paivio, "frequency")
plotDensity(Paivio, "syl")
plotDensity(Paivio, "letters")
plotDensity(Paivio, "freerecall")



# find ranges & 5 num summaries
ranges <- as.data.frame(apply(Paivio[,-(1:2)], 2, function(x) range(na.omit(x))))
rownames(ranges) <- c("min", "max")
ranges

P5num <- as.data.frame(apply(Paivio[,3:5], 2, fivenum))
rownames(P5num) <- c("min", "Q1", "med", "Q3", "max")
P5num

WordPools documentation built on Aug. 8, 2023, 5:11 p.m.