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paired, ppl. a.|pɜːəd|
[f. pair v.1 + -ed1.]
a. Associated together in pairs or twos; coupled.
1611Cotgr., Apparié, paired, coupled, matched. 1711Steele Spect. No. 254 ⁋3 A very loving Couple most happily paired in the Yoke of Wedlock. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 66 Figures ill pair'd, and Similes unlike. 1880A. Wilson in Gentl. Mag. CCXLVI. 44 The lancelet..has no paired fins or limbs.
b. Special collocations, as paired associates, stimulus material presented in pairs to test the strength of associations set up between them at a subsequent presentation of one of the pair; also (freq. in form paired-associate) attrib.; hence paired association; paired comparison, a method of testing the discriminations made between different examples of the same type of stimulus by presenting them for comparison in pairs; also attrib.
1937Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. XX. 60 (heading) The influence of the relative order of presentation of original and interpolated paired associates. 1949B. J. Underwood Exper. Psychol. ix. 287 The number of pairs in a paired-associate list has varied, but from 8 to 15 have commonly been employed. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXV. 212 Some are variants of such tasks as those for memory span..and paired-associates learning.
1963D. T. Campbell in S. Koch Psychol. VI. 120 The preexperimental learning of the pro-Communists might be epitomized as a paired association of ‘Communist—good’.
1901E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. i. vii. 154 Smells have enough variety, but are extremely and insistently associative. However, it would be well worth while to apply the method of paired comparisons to them. 1937G. W. Allport Personality (1938) i. 5 The method of paired-comparison recommends itself as an objective and qualitative technique for studying judgements of the affective value of colors. 1951S. S. Stevens Handbk. Exper. Psychol. i. 28/1 Certain criteria of internal consistency, as in the method of paired comparisons. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXII. 19 With the use of a paired-comparisons procedure, each group consisting of five animals was exposed to all three pairs. |