Semantic Characteristics of the Conservation Transformation
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 42 (3_suppl) , 1051-1054
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1978.42.3c.1051
Abstract
The thesis is advanced that transformations which lead to nonconservation (as opposed to those that do not) are related connotatively to the concept to be conserved. Evidence was found in significant positive correlations between degree of non-conservation of weight under various transformations and the magnitude of the semantic differential factor loadings of the adjectives which describe the various transformations on the potency factor on which the weight adjectives, heavy and light, are also loaded.Keywords
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