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WORD‐ASSOCIATION RESPONSE COMMONALITY AND THE GENERATION OF ASSOCIATIVE STRUCTURES
Author(s) -
INNES JOHN M.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1972.tb02084.x
Subject(s) - psychology , word association , associative property , association (psychology) , stimulus (psychology) , task (project management) , associative learning , repetition (rhetorical device) , free association (psychology) , cognitive psychology , set (abstract data type) , word (group theory) , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , management , psychoanalysis , pure mathematics , economics , psychotherapist , programming language
Subjects were selected as high or low in the number of primaries given in a word‐association task under both standard instructions and with instructions to give popular associations. Low‐commonality scorers produced words with a larger number of interconnexions than high‐commonality scorers, but did not produce more different words on a later serial‐association task. Commonality score under popular set did not seem to affect the production of associations. The associations of high‐commonality subjects seemed to consist more frequently of the repetition of the original stimulus words and the original responses to those words as responses later in the task compared to low‐commonality scorers.