Are Word Association Responses Really the First Words that Come to Mind?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22872148 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Playfoot (0000-0003-0855-334X, Sheffield Hallam University, corresponding author), Teodor Balint (Sheffield Hallam University), Vibhuti Pandya (Sheffield Hallam University), Averil Parkes (Sheffield Hallam University), Mollie Peters (Sheffield Hallam University), Samantha Richards (Sheffield Hallam University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | amw015 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-6001 • E-ISSN: 1477-450X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/applin/amw015 |
| OpenAlex | W2417309041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 29 |
Word association has been a popular tool for research in linguistics and psychology over the last century. The paradigm presents participants with a cue word and asks them to respond with the first associated word that comes to mind. Inferences about the structure and organization of the lexicon have been made on the basis of the findings of word association tasks, and on the assumption that responses reflect the strongest link between words in the participants' vocabulary. The procedure adopted in traditional word association tasks does not guarantee that this is the case. This article presents two experiments that aimed to determine whether or not participants make deliberate and strategic responses in word association tasks. Findings indicate that word association responses are likely to reflect the first word that participants activate in their lexicon.
Association (psychology) · Cognitive psychology · Lexicon · Linguistics · Sentence · Vocabulary · Vocabulary development · Word (group theory) · Word Association · Word lists by frequency · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |