Are Word Association Responses Really the First Words that Come to Mind?

Autor/inn/en	Playfoot, David; Balint, Teodor; Pandya, Vibhuti; Parkes, Averil; Peters, Mollie
Titel	Are Word Association Responses Really the First Words that Come to Mind?
Quelle	In: Applied linguistics, 39 (2018) 5, S. 607-624Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen 2; Literaturangaben; Tabellen 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1477-450X
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Assoziation; Experiment; Wortschatz; Mentales Lexikon
Abstract	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. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2