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Presence/absence of an observer in a word
association test
Morton Isaacs
Kathleen Chen
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Journal of Personality Assessment, 1990, 55(1&2) 41-51.
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TABLE 1
Stimuli, Mean Latency of Response, Stimulus Presentation
Order, Word Frequency,
Response Commonality, and Number of Extreme Responses
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Latency*
Present
Order
Proud
Divorce
Marry
Name***
Flower
Afraid
Dance
Glass
Swim
Love
Give
Woman
Wound
Berry
Kiss
Carrot
White
Hunger
Pond
Pencil
2.35
1.86
1.71
1.62
1.38
1.37
1.34
1.27
1.19
1.18
1.14
1.13
1.13
1.10
1.08
1.07
1.07
1.04
0.97
0.90
20
8
7
10
13
19
16
9
18
6
11
12
14
2
4
1
5
3
15
17
Word Response Number of
Freq**Commonality Extremes
50
29
18
23
57
90
99
15
232
391
224
28
9
17
1
365
17
25
34
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6
5
39
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26
7
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14
24
29
25
14
15
9
12
29
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7
17
16
10
5
7
6
5
4
5
4
7
2
2
5
2
4
1
0
0
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*** Each subject was presented with his or her name as the
stimulus word. Frequency data are not applicable and all
calculations were based on N = 19.
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Stimulus Words, Number of Extreme Scores per Stimulus Word,
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Low
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Low
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1.38
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1.08
1.19
1.14
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0.31
0.29
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