What is free association and what does it measure?
What is free association and what does it measure?
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DOI：
10.3758/bf03209337
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发表时间：
2000-09-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Dennis, S
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作者：
Nelson, DL;McEvoy, CL;Dennis, S
本文报道了一项关于自由联想的研究结果，参与者被要求说出脑海中出现的前两个词。研究结果被用来估计不同类型的项目和模型的自由联想的检索任务的强度和集大小的指标的可靠性。当局限于第一反应，可靠性一般都很高，这两个指数，特别是对于较小的联想和较强的初选。当第二个反应包括在内，可靠性下降。第二个反应在集合中添加了新的但较弱的项目，并且，当第一次机会没有产生主要联想时，它弯曲不产生第二次。相对于当多个响应被请求时，第一响应自由联想为单词的最强联想者提供了更可靠的相对强度和集合大小的指标。一个模型的自由联想假设强度分布的基础上，每个响应提供了一个很好的拟合数据。
This paper reports the results of a study of free association in which participants were asked to produce the first two words to come to mind. The findings were used to estimate the reliability of indices of strength and set size for different types of items and to model free association as a retrieval task. When confined to first responses, reliability was generally high for both indices, particularly for words with smaller sets of associates and stronger primaries. When second responses were included, reliability declined. A second response added new but weak items to the set, and, when the primary associate was not produced on the first opportunity, it bended not to be produced on the second. Relative to when multiple responses are requested, first-response free association provides more reliable indices of the relative strength and set size for a word's strongest associates. A model of free association assuming that a strength distribution underlies each response provided a good fit to the data.