Bathtub effect (psychology)
The bathtub effect referred to by Sigmund Freud in psycholinguistics , the phenomenon that is remembered at ungebräuchlichen words often in letters and end of words, but not to the central part of a word. In the literature, one speaks of the bathtub effect - in analogy to a person bathing in which only head and feet extend out of the water.
Using tip of the tongue (TOT) experiments , it has been found that test subjects who have been read out with definitions of relatively uncommon words (e.g. sextant ) name words in which 80 percent of the mentioned sounds and more than 70 percent of the Finals either correspond to the target word or are very similar to it.
Similarly, another study showed that the beginning of the word is generally easier to remember than the end of the word. In around 500 TOT situations, the first phoneme was hit correctly in 51 percent of the cases , the last phoneme only in 35 percent.
Individual evidence
- ^ Giuliano Merz: The mental lexicon and the intuitive grammar. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .