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Summary
Fifty students responded to a semantic differential questionnaire designed to test the meaning of sexually symbolic concepts. Two measures were used: first, the mean potency score, and, second, the mean score on the masculine-feminine (M - F) subscale. It was found that a number of discrepancies occurred between (a) mean potency and mean M - F scores; (b) mean potency score and predictions based on psychoanalytic theory; and (c) mean M - F scores and predictions based on psychoanalytic theory. The results were interpreted within a learning theory framework in accord with Staats' (1968) theoretical formulation.