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An Exploratory Study of Mediational Responses in Anagram Problem Solving

M. S. Mayzner New York University and UCLA School of Medicine, USA
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M. E. Tresselt New York University and UCLA School of Medicine, USA
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Harold Helbock New York University and UCLA School of Medicine, USA
Pages 263-274 | Received 07 Nov 1963, Published online: 02 Jul 2010

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Laura R. Novick & Steven J. Sherman. (2008) The effects of superficial and structural information on online problem solving for good versus poor anagram solvers. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 61:7, pages 1098-1120.
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Steven J. Muncer & David Knight. (2010) The Syllable Effect in Anagram Solution: Unrecognised Evidence from Past Studies. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 40:2, pages 111-118.
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Rick D. Gutierrez. (2017) The Role of Rehearsal in Joint Control. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior 22:1, pages 183-190.
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Thomas E. Fink & Robert W. Weisberg. (1981) The use of phonemic information to solve anagrams. Memory & Cognition 9:4, pages 402-410.
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Kevin S. Hickey. (2016) Internal-External Locus of Control and Environmental Cohesiveness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2:3, pages 282-285.
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Gerald A. Mendelsohn. (1976) Associative and attentional processes in creative performance1. Journal of Personality 44:2, pages 341-369.
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Gerald A. Mendelsohn & Anne T. O’Brien. (1974) The solution of anagrams: A reexamination of the effects of transition letter probabilities, letter moves, and word frequency on anagram difficulty. Memory & Cognition 2:3, pages 566-574.
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Christopher Peterson. (2013) Anagram solution times as a function of initial visual pattern: Familiar vs unfamiliar typeface. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 3:1, pages 39-40.
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Steven M. Rosen. (2017) Solution Difficulty and Perseveration as Functions of Anagram Type. The Psychological Record 21:3, pages 401-408.
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M. W. Warren & W. J. Thomson. (2013) Anagram solution as a function of transition probabilities and solution word frequency. Psychonomic Science 17:6, pages 333-334.
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M. E. Tresselt. (2012) A REEXAMINATION OF ANAGRAM PROBLEM SOLVING*. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 30:8 Series II, pages 1112-1119.
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M.E. Tresselt & M.S. Mayzner. (1968) Anagram solution times: A function of single- and double-letter solution words. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 7:1, pages 128-132.
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Donald M. Johnson, Daniel O. Lynch & James G. Ramsay. (1967) Word frequency and verbal comparisons. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 6:3, pages 403-407.
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M. S. Mayzner & M. E. Tresselt. (2014) Solving words as anagrams: An issue re-examined. Psychonomic Science 3:1-12, pages 363-364.
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