A Comparison of the Reaction Times of Stutterers and Nonstutterers to Items on a Word Association Test

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin R. Adams ◽  
Doris A. Dietze
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Matched Group ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Affective Disturbance

Reaction times to words judged as neutral or as connoting joy, guilt, depression, fear, or aggression were measured in 30 male stutterers between 18 and 45 years of age and in a matched group of 30 normal speakers. Reaction time was utilized as the index of affective disturbance. Stutterers had significantly greater mean latency for all words, and especially for certain affect-connoting items, particularly those pertaining to guilt.

Differences in Reaction Times of Extraverts and Introverts to Rapaport's Word Association Test

1979 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunio Shiomi
Keyword(s):  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Positive Correlations

For 40 Japanese undergraduates reaction times to the Rapa-port Word Association Test were recorded. Significant negative correlations were obtained between reaction times and Extraversion scores on the Maudsley Personality Inventory, but positive correlations with Neuroticism scores were obtained. These results were discussed in terms of the defense mechanisms of the ego and differences in types of personality.

Effects of Faking Instructions on the Word-Association Test

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 1183-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolores Kuntz
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Response Repetition ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Behavioral Indices ◽  
Fake Good ◽  
Reaction Time Response ◽  
Mean Reaction Time

This experiment was designed to investigate the effects of role-playing instructions on five word-association behavioral indices. 90 words varying in associative difficulty and in affective connotation were administered as a word-association test to 72 undergraduates. Ss were randomly assigned to one of three groups and were tested under standard, ‘fake good,’ and ‘fake bad’ instructions. Set significantly influenced mean reaction time, response repetition, forgetting, and ‘misremembering’ but did not interact with affective connotation. This lack of interaction was interpreted as favorable for the use of the word-association technique since no evidence was shown that set distorted the influence of affective connotation. All the set mean effects except that of reaction time reflected the influence of the ‘fake bad’ set.

scholarly journals The Diagnostic Utility of Kent-Rosanoff Word Association Test In relation to Response Entropy

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukhdev Singh
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Response Repetition ◽  
Diagnostic Utility ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Diagnostic Potential ◽  
Response Entropy ◽  
Emotional Indicators

Kent-Rosanoff word association test was administered and scored for: one index of response entropy and seven categories of emotional indicators for each of the 100 stimulus words (N=250). The inference suggests that the diagnostic utility of Kent-Rosanoff word association test should be viewed with due regard to the relationship of emotional indicators and response entropy. Therefore, to validate the findings, a homogenous list of 68 stimulus words of average response entropy of Kent-Rosanoff word association test were selected and administered to psychiatrically diagnosed 8 paranoid schizophrenics, 10 non-paranoid schizophrenics, 10 non-psychotic psychiatric patients and 250 normal. Results reveal strong justification for the clinicians to use the joint occurrence of emotional indicators ‘unique response-long reaction time-response repetition’ and ‘unique response-long reaction time-misremembering’ for tapping a common factor associated with the willingness to be unconventional. The ‘diagnostic potential’ of the list of 68 homogeneous stimulus words has been confirmed to a great extent.

Word Association Test and Psychosexual Cues in Assessing Persons with Eating Disorders

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliot M. Berry ◽  
Dalia Kelly ◽  
Laura Canetti ◽  
Eytan Bachar
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Sexual Problems ◽  
Psychosexual Development ◽  
Perceptual Sensitivity ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
The Subject

The present study aimed to detect psychosexual conflicts in patients with eating disorders using the Word Association Test which tests the perceptual sensitivity of the subject to conflictual words. We also expected patients to show concern about food and eating. 19 anorexic patients, 21 bulimic patients, and 20 control subjects without eating disorders provided associations to four groups of words: psychosexual words, food words, emotionally loaded words, and neutral words. Reaction times were recorded. Analysis showed that anorexic patients were slower than controls in responding to food-related words but bulimic patients were not significantly different from controls. Anorexic patients reacted more slowly than controls to psychosexual words. Bulimic patients were also somewhat slower than controls but faster than anorexic patients; however, these differences were not statistically significant. Results are congruent with research that points to sexual problems and delays in the psychosexual development of anorexic patients and to a lesser extent of bulimic patients.

Controlled Oral Word Association Test

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Benton ◽  
de S. K. Hamsher ◽  
A. B. Sivan
Keyword(s):  
Word Association ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Word Association Test

Three-Year Stability of Certain Word-Association Indices

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. F. W. Preece
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
The Mean

Substantial test-retest stability of individual differences in indices of response availability and overlap in a continued word-association test was found over an interval of 3 yr. An increase in the mean values of the indices over the 3-yr. period for 20 subjects initially aged 12 yr. was confirmed.

scholarly journals Common Serbian stereotypes about Persians

2020 ◽  
pp. 579-597
Author(s):  
Ivana Gligorijevic
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
The Common ◽  
Affective Meanings ◽  
The Given

In this paper, we analyze the reactions collected in a word association test. A total of 654 respondents participated. The test included twelve stimuli related to Oriental peoples, languages and countries. The test was done through an online survey. The respondents cited words or word groups that first came to their minds while reading the given stimuli. We aimed to answer the question: what our knowledge of Oriental peoples is based on and what stereotypesand prejudices we hold about them. The attention is paid to two of the stimuli from the test - Persians and Persian. We look at the frequency and the variety of respondents? reactions. Furthermore, we analyze groups of reactions that belong to the same thematic field. Our results were compared with other ethnonymsfrom the same association test, which had previously been analyzed in other research papers. The most frequent reaction was carpet/carpets, due to the common collocation Persian carpet. Frequent reactions to Iran/Iranians, history and historical figures were also found. The most significant thematic fields are the following: war, history, intellectual and cultural heritage, religion, politics and numerous positive and neutral judgments and attitudes. Therefore, it seems that our stereotypes, judgments, and attitudes about Persians are based on secondary sources, rather than primary. As a result, they lack affective meanings and negative connotations. According to respondents? reactions, Persians are seen as ancient warriors, founders of an old culture and civilization, a nation with a rich cultural and intellectual heritage, descendants of significant historical figures and holders of many qualities, such as wit, wisdom, dignity, nobility, and other.

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