Owens, Michael (2016) Using Category Norms to Develop a Category Switching Task. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Using recent Australian category norming data, the Category Switching Task (CST) was developed to measure the ability to respond to a large number of categories with a single instance. Two studies were conducted using this new test in order to compare two administration methods. In the first study, scores on the CST were correlated with scores on a semantic and phonemic fluency task when the CST was administered with a 10 second response time. Strong positive relationships were found between the CST and both of the verbal fluency tasks. In the second study, scores on the CST were correlated with scores on a semantic and phonemic fluency task when the CST was delivered using a timed response method, and the difference in average scores on the CST across the two administration methods was analysed. A strong positive relationship was found between the CST and the semantic fluency measure, but no relationship was found with the phonemic fluency. A significant difference was found between scores on the CST across the two administration methods. Parallel forms reliability was estimated by the relationship between the two forms of the CST for both administration methods. The results indicated that while the CST measures a construct similar to that of verbal fluency, the emphasis is on the breadth of knowledge and the flexibility to access unrelated semantic concepts quickly, rather than on the depth of knowledge within a single category. Such a measure may be useful in a cognitive assessment battery to gain a more complete picture of a person’s semantic memory functioning.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Liam Hendry |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2025 23:53 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2025 23:53 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | semantic memory ; category norms ; verbal fluency ; test development |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52643 |
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