Semantics of ownership

Rudmin, Floyd W.

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Semantics of ownership : a study based on free recall and on explicit judgements

Year of publication:: 1983

Language:: English

Topic:: C - Psychology

Shelfmark:: C/R916

Access:: Free access

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.33510/pop.AC14489026

21 the criteria used by subjects in determining ownership is to have them perform a task in which such criteria would be implicit. One reasonable task is free recall of what is owned by each particular owner and what is not owned. - By this method, subjects would list exemplars of what they own and what they do not own. They would then indicate the applicability of each criterion of ownership to each exemplar. The subjects might or might not be aware of the criteria by which they enumerated their exemplars. This approach should detect the salient features of ownership criteria actually in use in cognitive habits of individuals in the sample. free Recall There is a long tradition of using free recall as a research task in semantics. Bousfield & Sedgewick (1944) first described the task in which the subjects list exemplars of given categories, such as animals, U.S. ‘cities, foods they like, etc. It was early noted that subjects tend to give responses in bursts, or temporal clusters, of associatively related items. This phenomenon has been noted by others since, and the generally accepted model for free recall is that subjects search for and identify relevent associative clusters of items and successively "dump" the items in each cluster (Pollio, 1964; Herrmann & Pearle, 1981). To allow more experimental control and manipulation,

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