Abstract
Several investigations of the role of categories in semantic memory have studied the variable of category size. It is possible that categories possess other properties which also affect processing. Consequently, a study of the 56 categories in the Battig and Montague (1969) norms was undertaken to determine what other properties categories may possess. Six different measures were computed for each category, three of which were originally reported by Battig and Montague. A factor analysis of the intercorrelations of the six measures indicated that at least three factors underlie the data in the Battig and Montague norms. These three factors were tentatively interpreted as reflecting the properties of category size, category accessibility, and category familiarity.
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