Allusive thinking, the Word Halo and verbosity.

Abstract:

:The concept of allusive thinking is briefly reviewed and a Pavlovian model of thinking advanced. It is hypothesized that allusive, as compared with non-allusive thinkers, have a broader but less intense attention process associated with weaker inhibition. From this model it was predicted that on word tests which require judgements of similarity of meaning, allusive thinkers would tend to choose more remote or unusual words as similar in meaning. The Word Halo Test and the Word Sorting Test were administered to 63 university students using the Object Sorting Test as a measure of allusive thinking. The prediction that allusive thinkers would choose more unusual words as similar in meaning was supported. A tendency for allusive thinkers to be more verbose than non-allusive thinkers was also noted.

journal_name

Psychol Med

journal_title

Psychological medicine

authors

Armstrong MS,McConaghy N

doi

10.1017/s0033291700004414

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1977-08-01 00:00:00

pages

439-45

issue

3

eissn

0033-2917

issn

1469-8978

journal_volume

7

pub_type

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