Diagnostic Procedure
semantic differential
se·man·tic dif·fer·en·tial
Subclass of:
Psycholinguistics;
Personality Tests
Definitions related to semantic differential:
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Analysis of word concepts by the association of polar adjectives, e.g., good-bad, with the concept, father. The adjectives are usually scaled in 7 steps. The subject's placement of the concept on the adjectival scale indicates the connotative meaning of the concept.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(differential semantics) Measurement technique to assess subjective meanings of words; used in cross-cultural studies to study the development of meanings in children, and to assess psychotherapy.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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