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The Use Of Word Association To Examine Conscious Attention, Laura A. Batchelor

Theses

This study applied statistical analysis to the word association method of psychological research to investigate the element of conscious attention, defined as those mental processes which deliver a word a s a response to a stimulus word.

The subjects were 15 males and 15 females from a middle-class suburban community. They were tested individually with a 100 - item word association test. Each subject participated in two testing sessions, and the word association test was administered twice during each session.

Two variables were measured, response time and response reproduction. These were used to classify each subject's reactions to the test …