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FURTHER STUDIES ON ANAGRAM SOLVING

Ian Hunter

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Abstract

Two experiments are reported. In the first, 100 student subjects took part in a modified repetition of a previous experiment. The results confirm and add to those of the earlier study. In the second, 487 students took a task requiring the production of three different solution words from the same anagram. The various orders of producing these words directly demonstrate anagram solving as a continued trial‐and‐check activity with determinable transition probabilities between successive ‘tries’.

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Two experiments are reported. In the first, 100 student subjects took part in a modified repetition of a previous experiment. The results confirm and add to those of the earlier study. In the second, 487 students took a task requiring the production of three different solution words from the same anagram. The various orders of producing these words directly demonstrate anagram solving as a continued trial‐and‐check activity with determinable transition probabilities between successive ‘tries’.

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Two experiments are reported. In the first, 100 student subjects took part in a modified repetition of a previous experiment. The results confirm and add to those of the earlier study. In the second, 487 students took a task requiring the production of three different solution words from the same anagram. The various orders of producing these words directly demonstrate anagram solving as a continued trial‐and‐check activity with determinable transition probabilities between successive ‘tries’.

Key concepts: Anagram, Psychology, Task (project management), Repetition (rhetorical device), Anagrams, Cognitive psychology, Arithmetic, Mathematics

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