Familiarity and Value Effects upon Stereoscopic Word Recognition

Abstract

Words representing 15 Ss highest and lowest value areas on the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values were simultaneously presented stereo-scopically. In general, Ss recognized words of greater idiosyncratic familiarity regardless of word value. In addition words of high and low value and equivalent idiosyncratic familiarity were each recognized approximately 50% of the time. Word-familiarity ratings indicated that words of high or low familiarity and representing the highest and lowest value areas, respectively, had equivalent idiosyncratic familiarity. High-value, medium-familiarity words were more familiar and also were recognized more frequently than low-value, medium-familiarity words.