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 research presented in this paper examines developmental changes in the word association task and the influence reading seems to have on this process.
Each form of the word association test consisted of 48 words.
Changes in word association responses over the school year were studied by calculating difference scores.
Responses in the word association task can be understood as involving automatic processes.
As word association distributions supposedly represent conceptual similarity, it is assumed that the underlying representations for antonyms are conceptual in nature.
Given such limitations, it was decided to limit the current study to two types of word knowledge: grammatical knowledge and word association knowledge.
Characteristics of word association responses obtained from children in grades one through four.
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.
