To a group of 36 male and 24 female college students without previous experience with the Skeleton Word Test, Alternate Uses Test, and Remote Associates Test, each test was administered on separate occasions. Correlations indicated that letter-frequency hierarchy as measured by the Skeleton Word Test was significantly related to hierarchical features explored by the Alternate Uses Test and Remote Associates Test. Differences in magnitude of relation indicated that the Alternate Uses Test explored hierarchical features more like the Skeleton Word Test than the Remote Associates Test.
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