WordPools-package: Classical word pools used in studies of learning and memory
Description
This package collects several classical word pools used
most often to provide lists of words in psychological
studies of learning and memory.
A word pool consists of a population of words, together
with various descriptive measures (number of letters,
number of syllables, word frequency, etc.) and
normative measures (imagery, concreteness, etc.)
that can be used in experimental designs to vary
and control such factors.Details
ll{
Package: WordPools
Type: Package
Version: 1.0-1
Date: 2012-12-07
License: GPL-2
}
At present, the package contains three main word pools:
Paivio - the Paivio etal. (1968) word list of 925 nouns
TWP - the Friendly etal. (1982) Toronto Word Pool of 1080 words in various grammatical classes
Battig - the Battig & Montague (1969) Categorized Word Norms, containing 5231 words listed in
56 taxonomic categories. Various measures on these categories are given in CatProp.
In addition, the function pickList provides the ability to select items from such
lists with restrictions on the ranges of the measured variables.References
Friendly, M. Word list generator. http://datavis.ca/online/paivio/
See also http://memory.psych.upenn.edu/Word_Pools
and http://www.psych.rl.ac.uk/MRC_Psych_Db.html for other related word pools