Judgments of degree of associative relatedness were obtained for the members of S-R pairs selected from free associational norms. Each of 13 pairs, designated as taxonomic, represented a different conceptual category. The individual members of each of 13 pairs, designated as associative, were not taxonomically similar. The inter-item free associational strengths of the two types of pairs varied from high to low. A separate group of 20 Ss was assigned to each list to give judgments of the forward and reverse associative strengths of the individual pairs. The correlations between the free associational and judgmental measures of the relatedness of the members of the pairs were highly significant.
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