Effects of part of speech, word category and word frequency on difficulty and reaction time of Chinese Words Reasoning Test

    WU Shengª²Jun, MIAO Danª²Min, XIAO Wei, LIU Xuª²Feng, WANG Jianª²Zhi

    1Department of Psychology, School of Aerospace Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi¬ðan 710033, China, 2Clinic of Flight Department, Northwest Branch of China Eastern Airlines, Xi¬ðan 710082, China

    ¡¾Abstract¡¿ AIM: To study the effects of part of speech, word category and word frequency on the difficulty and reaction time of Chinese Words Reasoning Test. METHODS: The subjects¬ð scores were ranked respectively in the order of college group>senior high school group>junior high school group>elementary school group, the Han nationality group>minority group, and city group>country group. Part of speech, word category and word frequency of confusion options and target option were classified and the reaction time of class was recorded to calculate the difficulty of items. RESULTS: The difficulty of the items in the same word category of confusion options and target option was significantly higher than those of their counterparts(P<0.001). The reaction time of the items of the same part of speech, word category or word frequency was significantly longer than that of their counterparts, respectively(P<0.05). CONCLUSION: In Chinese Words Reasoning Test, the word category of confusion options and goal option has the main effect on the difficulty of the items and part of speech, word category and word frequency of confusion options and target option can also affect the reaction time. When the 3 indexes of confusion options and target option are the same, the reaction time will be prolonged. ......