Witte Kenneth L, Freund Joel S, Csiki Ildiko
Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701-1201, USA.
J Gen Psychol. 2002 Apr;129(2):117-26. doi: 10.1080/00221300209603132.
The effects of mixed-case letters on anagram solution were investigated in 2 studies with college-aged participants. In Experiment 1, the participants attempted to solve anagrams printed in either mixed- or same-case letters. The results showed that mixed-case letters disrupted the solution process. To determine if this effect was a result of the inappropriate grouping of letters of the same case, the authors conducted Experiment 2 as a partial replication of Experiment 1. In Experiment 2, in some cases, uppercase letters in the mixed-case condition formed a word that was of a higher frequency than was the solution word. Once again mixed-case letters disrupted the solution process. However, the authors found no evidence for the hypothesis on the inappropriate grouping of letters as the disruption was independent of having an embedded word in the anagram.
在两项针对大学生参与者的研究中，调查了大小写混合字母对变位词求解的影响。在实验1中，参与者尝试求解用大小写混合或全大写或全小写字母打印的变位词。结果表明，大小写混合字母干扰了解题过程。为了确定这种影响是否是由于相同大小写字母的不适当分组造成的，作者进行了实验2，作为实验1的部分重复。在实验2中，在某些情况下，大小写混合条件下的大写字母形成了一个频率高于解词的单词。大小写混合字母再次干扰了解题过程。然而，作者没有发现证据支持关于字母不适当分组的假设，因为这种干扰与变位词中是否有嵌入词无关。
