Psychological probability as a function of experienced frequency.
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College students can estimate, with a high correlation to actual counts, the frequency of single letters.
“and can also estimate, with a high correlation to actual counts, the frequencyof English words (Shapiro, 1969), of single letters (Attneave, 1953), and even of pairs of letters (Underwood, 1971).”
From FREQUENCY EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING: A Review with Implications for Theories of Implicit and Explicit Language Acquisition (2002) · cites this paper as Attneave, 1953
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- Authors
- Attneave, F.
- Corresponding author
- Attneave, Fred
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Published
- 1953
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 81-86
- ISSN
- 0022-1015 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2049313067
- Cited by
- 197
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 3.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Probability and Statistical Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- frequency perception, subjective probability, frequency judgment
- MeSH terms
- Mental Disorders, Biometry, Probability, Statistics as Topic
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