WordPools (version 1.0-1)

Paivio: Paivio, Yuille & Madigan Word Pool

Description

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

Usage

data(Paivio)

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.

Details

The freerecall variable has 27 NAs.

References

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

Examples

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

# density plots
mydens <- function(data, var, ...) {
	title = paste0( deparse(substitute(data)), ": ", var)
	plot(density(data[,var], na.rm=TRUE), main=title, ...) 
	rug(jitter(data[,var]))
}

mydens(Paivio, "imagery")
mydens(Paivio, "concreteness")
mydens(Paivio, "meaningfulness")
mydens(Paivio, "frequency")
mydens(Paivio, "syl")
mydens(Paivio, "letters")
mydens(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