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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Word Association"”.
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Electric shock therapy and the Word Association Test
<p>The Word Association Test has been less frequently used in recent years with the advent and popularization of many new projective techniques. From a clinical viewpoint the method is limited in that it gives insufficient material for a description of the personality as a meaningful whole, …
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A Quantitative Semantic Analysis of Word Association in Schizophrenia
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Definitions and Lexical Organization of Adjectives: A Developmental Investigation
In comparing word association and definition, it is suggested that adjectives are supported by word association. Word associations seem to contribute to the content of definitions (as opposed to form). However, grammatical skill also appears to be involved. It is concluded that content and form are …
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Size matters : a study of English proficiency levels of educated Maltese English speakers through lexical competence
… cohort’s mental lexicon, the research focused on word association in the cohort’s native Maltese and their L2, English. The results of this thesis suggest that further study into the correlation between Maltese and English responses to word association tests are likely to shed light onto the …
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Effects of behavioral tasks on memory reconsolidation and trauma-related symptoms : a randomized clinical trial
… task (playing Tetris for 15 minutes), (2) a word association task (playing a word association game for 15 minutes), or (3) a no-treatment control condition (no gameplay). We hypothesized that participants in the visuospatial task condition would show greater reductions in emotional …
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A comparison of password techniques
A widely used access control mechanism is the password. Passwords are normally composed of a meaningful detail, such as a name of a person or a sequence of numbers such as birthdate. Any person attempting to gain unauthorized access to a system might need only to look at a personnel record or …
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Surveillance Gone Too Far? Individual Reactions to the Use of Drones in Urban Areas.
… = 40) or not (Control = 40) and were given a word association task. From these participants, a subsample of 16 (F=7, M=9) respondents (8 from both groups) was taken for semi-structured interviews. The findings from the word association task indicate that the control group associated UAVs with …
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The role of cross-linguistic formal similarity in Hungarian-German bilingual learners of English as a foreign language
… gegenseitige Aktivierung (z. B. durch 'direct word association' oder durch 'concept mediation') zu modellieren. Drei abhängige Variablen werden in einer quantitativen und qualitativen Analyse empirischer Daten untersucht: Genauigkeit, Antwortzeitlatenzen und phonologische Interferenz. Die …
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L'importanza della tracciabilità di un prodotto agro-alimentare: determinazione dei valori e dei benefici della tracciabilità nelle potenziali scelte di acquisto del consumatore
… tecniche qualitative: laddering interviews e word association. Un ulteriore obiettivo che ci siamo prefissati è stato quello di verificare se ci fosse una differenza potenziale tra i consumatori intervistati provenienti da due diverse aree geo-grafiche, una a valenza rurale, e una a valenza …
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The Detection of Neuropsychological Malingering
… Rey 15-Item Memory Test, Controlled Oral Word Association Test, Finger Oscillation Test, WAIS-R Neuropsychological Instrument (Vocabulary, Information, and Similarities subtests), Booklet Category Test, and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. The statistical concepts of floor effect, performance …
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Language Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury While Controlling for Effort
… Semantic cue conditions of the Controlled Oral Word Association Test; the Auditory Comprehension subtest of the Cognistat; Wide Range Achievement Test-3 Reading subtest; and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. When effort was controlled, there was a significant effect of injury severity on …
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Hemispheric Differences in Semantic Priming Examined Across Handedness Groups
… interaction was not found, effects of SOA, word association, and visual field were consistent with previous findings. When handedness was re-classified by stated handedness, there was an association between handedness and visual field. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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The Importance of Situational Information for Abstract Concepts
… primarily understood by their relations to other words. However, recent research recognizes that this is not a comprehensive view of their representation, and that it excludes much of people’s everyday experience. Accordingly, current theories of grounded cognition propose that real-world …
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The effects of a self-reward procedure on three depressive behaviors
… and self-evaluations of their performance on a word association task. According to the self-reinforcement model of depression, a person becomes depressed as a result of a breakdown in any of the three stages, self-monitoring, self-evaluation, and self-reward of the self-reinforcement process. In …
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Test re-test reliability of the Boston Naming Test and the Visual Naming Test on normal subjects with a comparison to subjects with complex partial seizure disorder.
… the BNT, VNT and the Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT) on two occasions separated by a two month interval. Temporal stability of these measures was demonstrated by the high correlation between test re-test scores for the BNT, VNT and COWAT, respectively. Excellent intertest …
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Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition
… explanatory value. Study one utilized a one-word association task conducted in both languages, a common way to examine the conceptual organization of the bilingual lexicon. Study two utilized a different kind of association task to investigate influences of L1 (grammatical gender) under L2 …
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A preliminary investigation into the relationship between age, gender, education, occupation and "race" and performance on selected neuropsychological tests in a non-clinical adult sample
… non-clinical sample. The Controlled Oral Word Association Test, Wechsler Paired-Associate Learning Test and Digit Supraspan was administered to 329 adults in the age range 18 - 80. The relationship between the subject variables and test performance was analysed by ANOVA. It was found that …
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Inter-rater reliability using a modified Balance Error Scoring System
… balance test, with the controlled oral word association (COWA) test. The primary aim of this research was to examine the inter-rater reliability of a modified BESS (mBESS) test. Secondary aims included determining if there was a relationship between the BESS and COWA scores, and whether …
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