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word association test

n. Psychology
A test for assessing personality traits and conflicts, in which the subject responds to a given word with the first word that comes to mind or with a predetermined type of word, such as an antonym.
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In order to better visualize and explain the perception of each formulation and analyze the degree of association between formulations and the words produced during the word association test, a correspondence analysis (CA) (Guerrero et al., 2010, Beh et al., 2011) was conducted.
Many of the analyzed articles evaluated the validity of the methods of IAC assessment and found that: the IAT, the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST; De Houwer, 2003), the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP; Payne, Cheng, Govorun & Stewart, 2005), the Affective Priming Paradigm (APP; Fazio et al., 1986), and the Word Association Test (Stacy, Leigh & Weingardt, 1994) were valid methods to assess IAC (Gray, LaPlante, Bannon, Ambady & Shaffer, 2011; Houben, Rothermund & Wiers, 2009; Lindgren, Westgate, Kilmer, Kaysen & Teachman, 2012; Lindgren, Hendershot, Neighbors, Blayney & Otto, 2011; Ostafin & Palfai, 2006; Payne, Govorun & Arbuckle, 2008).
She caused fury herself by describing Sinn Fein leader Michelle O'Neill in a word association test as "blonde".
CVLT TL: California Verbal Learning Test total learning; CVLT LTM: CVLT long-term memory; BVMT TL: Brief Visuospatial Memory Test total learning; BVMT LTM: BVMT long-term memory; SDMT: Symbol Digit Modalities Test; PASAT 3" and 2": Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test; JLO: Judgment of Line Orientation; DKEFS CS: Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System sorting test correct sort; DEKEFS DS: DEKEFS description score; COWAT: Controlled Oral Word Association Test.
The tests were: Rey auditory verbal learning tests (RAVLTs); [20 digit span[20] and digit symbol; [20] controlled oral word association test (COWAT F-A-S and Animal); [20] short story comprehension and recall (using an SA adaptation of the cowboy story, i.e.
I was led into the adjoining room with the impressive "shock generator." I was to administer a sample word association test to be followed by the real test.
In this study, we could not conclude that low-achieving students on reading tests have an information-processing bias, because the low- and high-achievement groups on reading tests showed the same pattern of use of analytical and insight strategies to answer Rebus puzzles and the word association test (although students in the high-achievement group more often reported what strategy they preferred to solve the problems).
Benton Controlled Oral Word Association Test: Reliability and updated norms.
The third session: The Bryan's Word Association Test was completed.
Data are collected from 148 participants using a free word association test and analyzed using a criterion of semantic relationship.
The purpose of this study is to investigate biology student teachers' conceptual frameworks regarding biodiversity using a free word association test. This study focuses on the following question: How do biology student teachers conceptualize the term "biodiversity"?
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