Concept Differentiation by Semantic and Visual Mediation

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Abstract
The assumption of distance in interconcept space as an inverse function of similarity among concept profiles was supported by a technique of direct visual differentiation. 28 students of education each generated two matrices of interconcept distances, one by the well-known semantic differential technique and one by the manipulation of tokens on a checkered board. Configurations in the semantic and visual modes were isomorphous, that is, significantly and substantially correlated. This further suggests that visual differentiation implied by token manipulation may sometimes be substituted for semantic differentiation. There also appeared a generalized tendency toward extent of differentiation in the semantic and visual modes.

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