Abstract
Jorgensen and Kintsch (1973) found that sentences rated as easy to image were verified more quickly than sentences rated as hard to image. In the present study subjects rated the semantic relatedness of subject and predicate words in the sentences used by Jorgensen and Kintsch, the comprehensibility of the complete sentences, and also the difficulty of defining the verbs. Subjects found low-imagery sentences to be relatively difficult to understand, and verbs from low-imagery sentences were rated as more difficult to define. Subject and predicate words were more closely related in high-imagery true sentences and in low-imagery false sentences. It was concluded that the results of Jorgensen and Kintsch do not distinguish the effects of rated imagery on RT from the effects of semantic relatedness and semantic complexity.
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