The relationships between judged similarity, judged association, and normative association

Word pairs varying in word association probability between members of the pairs were used to obtain judgements of similarity (JS) and three different sets of association strength judgements. Correlations between JS and associative judge-were low with the highest reaching.33. Correlations between JS and normative association strength were also low. Some correlations between associative judgements and normative values were high with the correlation between bi-directional associative judgements and bi-directional norms reaching .98.