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A word association test was administered to a group of 316 undergraduate students. Word stimuli were balanced according to frequency of occurrence in written English language usage (frequent, infrequent), word length (short, long), abstraction level (low, medium, high), and grammatical class (noun, verb, adjective). Responses were analyzed according to a syntactic classification system. The factorial nature of the word list used enhances its value as a research tool.
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The authors wish to thank Professor Louis J. Gerstman, Department of Psychology, City College of CUNY, New York, for his assistance in preparing the statistical data in this study.
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Goldfarb, R., Halpern, H. Word association responses in normal adult subjects. J Psycholinguist Res 13, 37–55 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067901
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