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Word Association Test (WAT)
History and Background
Word Association Test
A test assessing personality traits and conflicts, in which the subject
Carl Jung He was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential
thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth.
Author
Francis Galton• African Explorer and elected Fellow in the Royal
Geographic Society • Creator of the first weather maps and establisher of the
meteorological theory of anticyclones• Coined term "eugenics" and phrase "nature versus
nurture"• Developed statistical concepts of correlation and
regression to the mean • Discovered that fingerprints were an index of personal
identity and persuaded Scotland Yard to adopt a fingerprinting system
• First to utilize the survey as a method for data collection• Produced over 340 papers and books throughout his
lifetime• Knighted in 1909
Word association was first developed as a research instrument by Francis Galton and was subsequently developed by Carl Jung as a clinical diagnostic tool.
Galton introduced the first word-association test to psychology. He used a list of 75 stimulus words with which he read and noted his responses. Galton, who thought that there might be a link between a person's I.Q. (intelligence quotient) and word associations.
HISTORY
Word association is connected with the work that Carl Gustav Jung was engaged in at the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Zurich in the early stages of his career (Jung, 1917/1926/1943). Under the directorship of Eugen Bleuler, the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic was an international center of excellence in psychiatric research at the turn of the century. Jung became director of research on the Word Association Test.
This test usually consisted of a hundred stimulus words that were read out singly to a subject who was to "answer as quickly as possible with the first word that occurs to you.”
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ADMINISTRATION
Administering a word-association test is relatively uncomplicated.
A subject is asked to respond with the first word or idea that comes to mind.
The table has three columns: the test word, reaction time and patients – response.
Jung's Word Association
Test
Jung's first English language papers on the
subject is taken from his lecture notes at Clark University in Massachusetts in September, 1909.
Jung presents his method of using 100 words.
Identify abnormal patterns of response as a
means to identify psychological complexes, along with what he calls
"intellectual and emotional deficiencies."
Methods
1. Patients Instructions
"We're now going to do a word association test. This test contains 100 words. After I say each word, I'll be expecting you to respond with a word. I want you to answer as quickly as possible with the first word that occurs to your mind."
2. Recording the results
The table has three columns: test word, reaction time, and patient-response.
Record the number of seconds of the delayed response.
3. Reproduction
The reproduction method was invented
by Jung to "fine-tune“, " the accuracy of
examiner identified complexes.
Types of Reproduction Disturbance
False Unrelated RecallFalse Related RecallNo RecallDelay in RecallPartial RecallSpontaneously corrected False Recall
4. Interpretation
5. Re-writing
6. Final Thoughts
****END****
-Alexis Mirabueno
Word association test
DEFINITION OF WAT: : a test of personality and mental function
in which the subject is required to respond to each of a series of words with the first word that comes to mind or with a word of a specified class of words.
Generally, a list of words (stimuli) is given to subjects (either in writing or in oral form). The subjects are asked to respond with the first word that comes into their mind (responses).
Word Association Test
Dog 49, mouse 8, black 4, animal 2, eyes, gut, kitten, tom 2, bit, Cheshire, claw, claws, enigma, feline, furry, hearth, house, kin, kittens, milk, pet, pussy, todd 1
(of 100 people asked)
‘Cat’ stimulates
SCORING WAT Scoring are not scores in the sense we use
scores on other test.◦ (a beginner in the field may prefer to score them
for his own sake, because test scores help in accumulating and systemizing experience.)
Kinds of associative disturbances
BlockingObject NamingDefinitionsAttempted DefinitionsRepetitions
Kinds of associative disturbances
Partial RepetitionsClang AssociationPhrase CompletionClose reaction properAttributes
Kinds of associative disturbances
ImagesSuspectedSelf- References
Kinds of associative disturbances
Perseveration*Repeating the same reaction on most or all
stimulus words having some link between them
*Reacting to stimulus word with a word appropriate to the previous stimulus word
*Reacting to a stimulus word with a word appropriate to the previous reaction word
Kinds of associative disturbances
Unrelated reactionDistant reactionMildly distant reactionNeologismsAffective reactions
Kinds of associative disturbances
AlternativesProper nounsVulgar reaction
Mishearing of stimulus wordNot knowing the stimulus
word
Kinds of associative disturbances
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Significance of Various
Types of Associative Disturbanc
es
1. Blocking Shows it’s greatest incidence in
deteriorated unclassified schizophrenics and in inhibited pre schizophrenics.
2. Object Naming• Occur occasionally in depressive
psychotics and inhibited schizophrenics.
3. Repetition and Partial Repetition• Occur most frequently in acute or
deteriorated unclassified schizophrenics and in inhibited pre schizophrenics.
4. Definitions and Attempted Definitions Occur with a very high incidence in
depressives and deteriorated unclassified schizophrenics.
5. Closed Reaction Proper• Outstandingly often encountered in
simple schizophrenia.
6. Self - References• Occur at times chronic and deteriorated
unclassified schizophrenics and depressive neurotics.
7. Perseverations Crop up in chronic schizophrenics, acute
paranoid schizophrenics, and simple schizophrenics; also in over ideational pre schizophrenics and mixed neurotics.
8. Clang Associations• Present in schizophrenics and pre
schizophrenics; most in ideational are pre – schizophrenics and least acute in schizophrenia.
9. Phrase Completion Occurs most in chronic unclassified
schizophrenia, acute paranoid schizophrenia, and over ideational pre schizophrenia.
10. Images and Suspected Images• Occur most often in pre schizophrenics
and obsessive – compulsive.
11. Attributes Appear at a maximum in chronic and
deteriorated schizophrenics, and are also paranoid in conditions.
12. Unrelated Reactions• Are commonest in deteriorated
classified schizophrenics.
14. Mildly distant reactions• Occur most often in simple schizophrenics,
but also in depressive psychotics.
15. Multiword reactions• Have by far the highest frequency
deteriorated unclassified schizophrenics followed by acute unclassified schizophrenics.
16. Emotional reactions They turn up most frequently in the test
of over ideational pre schizophrenics and acute unclassified schizophrenics.
17. Alternate reactions• Are not often given except by some
schizophrenics.
18. Vulgar responses• Are most prevalent in men of relatively
little education and limited cultural background.
19. Subtotal of close reactions
• Characterized by depression with some incidence of schizophrenia also.
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