A subject reads a list of words and non-words, and then is asked to respond as quickly as possible whether the sequence of letters is a word or not.

Lexical decision task

We respond faster to words with high frequency in a language than low frequency (we will respond faster to home than hike).

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How often (the frequency) that a word appears in some text or speech.

Word Frequency

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

A collection of utterances and written text that is compiled and estimates the frequency of which words are used (word frequency), the different meanings a words has (lexical ambiguity), and the grammatical constructions used.

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