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Previous attempts to identify verbal analogy problems that can be solved on the basis of word association did not take account of the possibility that assocations to a word are different when that word is in the context of other words than when it is presented alone. The various parts of 25 verbal analogy problems were presented, individually and in combinations, to Ss with instructions to choose responses on the basis of word associations. Ss receiving all three of the stimulus parts of the analogy problems chose answers that completed the corresponding problems significantly more often than Ss given only one of the stimulus parts. This result, and other factors, led to the conclusion that it is not possible to eliminate totally the word association bias of verbal analogy problems.
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Powell, A., Vega, M. Word association and verbal analogy problems. Psychon Sci 22, 103–104 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332516
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