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Relation of number of different responses to group size and stimulus words in a discrete free‐association situation
Author(s) -
FLEKKØ KJELL,
HOLME INGAR,
MOHN ERIK
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1973.tb00082.x
Subject(s) - psychology , associative property , stimulus (psychology) , free association (psychology) , norwegian , association (psychology) , associative learning , word association , audiology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , mathematics , pure mathematics , linguistics , medicine , psychoanalysis , philosophy , psychotherapist
FlekkØy, K., Holme, I. & Mohn, E. Relation of number of different responses to group size and stimulus words in a discrete free‐association situation. Scand. J. Psychol., 1973, 14, 4–8.‐An exploration of the total number (D) of different responses given to a stimulus word in a single‐word, free‐association situation showed that (1) the first 50 Kent‐Rosanoff words (in Norwegian) were highly heterogeneous with regard to D; (2) was an asymptotic function of the number of subjects; and (3) the larger D for schizophrenics may be attributed to their higher frequency of individual responses. It was also indicated that D may not be a valid measure of the magnitude of the associative potential of the individual.