0 a method sometimes used in psychoanalysis in which the person being treated says the first word they think of when a particular word is said, which may help to discover how parts of the mind work
The first stage of data was collected using a written word association prompt distributed to the whole sample.
Six categories of word association responses were devised in order to assess the development of the responses.
New research using other, more extensive deep word knowledge measures (for example, a definition task or word association format) is needed.
Word association knowledge and suffix knowledge were shown to correlate with each other and with total vocabulary size.
Deese's (1964) finding of strong intersection coefficients for the word association distributions of antonymous adjectives has fueled arguments that antonyms are not as different in meaning as they seem.
In the word association game, players in turn say whatever word comes into their mind first after hearing the previous word.
Zajonc tested his theories by having people complete word association tasks alone and again in the presence of others.
All responses on the word association test were given a classification of "paradigmatic," "syntagmatic," or "clang-other" response and assigned a score according to their classification.
