THE EXPANDED WORD ASSOCIATION TEST AS A MEASURE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFICIT ASSOCIATED WITH BRAIN-DAMAGE.

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  • Author(s): Appelbaum, Stephen A.
  • Source:
    Journal of Clinical Psychology. Jan1963, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p78-84. 7p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      ASSOCIATION tests; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; BRAIN damaged patients; PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; VOCABULARY; CONNOTATION (Linguistics)
    • Abstract:
      The article investigates the use of an expanded Word Association Test for detecting psychological deficit associated with brain damage. It also investigates the usefulness of the repetition tendency, and a variety of other response characteristics, for discriminating between groups of brain-damaged patients, psychiatric patients without brain damage, and Ss selected from a non-psychiatric population without brain damage. The word list approximates and includes words known to have strong emotional connotations. A subsidiary purpose of this study was to check the reliability of the finding of no difference between brain damaged and non-brain damaged Ss on the reproduction trial.