Osgood's
Naturalness Principle in Cognizing and Sentencing of Stative Relations
H. Nagata |
Osgood's
(1980) Naturalness Principle as applied to stative cognition was
examined in a picture-phrase matching task. Phrases and pictures
were presented successively under two conditions: i.e., picture-first
and picture-last conditions. Congruent and incongruent phrases were
used, with the former being consistent with a naturally perceived
figure-ground relation and the latter being inconsistent with it.
Subjects were timed as they judged whether the pictures matched or
did not match the phrases. It was found that when pictures were viewed
before phrases, there was a shorter RT for congruent phrases than
for incongruent ones. There was no differences in RTs, however, when
pictures were viewed after the presentation of the phrases. These
results are in accord with Osgood's Naturalness Principle.
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