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单词 word association
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Definition of word association in English:

word association

noun
mass noun
  • The spontaneous and unreflective production of other words in response to a given word, as a game, a prompt to creative thought or memory, or a technique in psychiatric evaluation.

    (作为游戏,对创造性思维或回忆的提示,或精神病评估手段的)字词联想(由某给定词自发、不假思索地引出其他词)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Scientists told a recent meeting of the British Psychological Society that men on weekly hormone injections, which raised their blood testosterone to twice the normal level, became much better at verbal tasks such as word association.
    • I guess maybe somebody thought it would be fun for people to hunt through gobs of symbols, word association games, and answer various questions just so you can see the trailers.
    • You don't like to play sports and you get confused easily since you like to do word association in your head when someone is talking.
    • I don't want to overestimate the significance of my own memory, but I suspect that this word association has larger implications for the way Americans generally view loyalty.
    • Unofficially, we coin names to describe the heat of a dish through word association; fire, degrees of heat, alarms, and so on.
    • We feel like playing word association, and since it's our column, we're going to.
    • This is done through word games and word association.
    • Participants were told that they would be taking part in a study of word association, and at no point were they told of the parapsychological nature of the study.
    • Stanford used word association as a directed free-response task.
    • Admittedly this may merely be the result of my own internal game of word association and therefore is perhaps a matter best dealt with internally.
    • I thought I'd get to lie on a fainting couch and do ink blot tests and word association games.
    • Nevertheless, cultural learning influences behavioral patterns that may affect word meaning frequencies and bias word association responses.
    • I remember we played some word association game for an hour and a half and then realised, when it had all got very silly, that we hadn't decided how it would end.
    • It was like word association but also similar to a questionnaire.
    • If politicians were asked to play word association, ‘health spending’ would be strongly linked with ‘bottomless pit’.
    • Most of these studies have utilized a word association paradigm that produces ‘false memories’ by creating a high percentage of false alarms.
    • Jade and Jeremy played a game of word association.
    • It combines elements of logical flow with questions of semantics, word association, and indeed outright mistake.
    • Often, when people hear a gun company's name, an automatic game of word association begins.
    • Jung claims to have discovered the concept during his word association and galvanic skin response experiments.

Definition of word association in US English:

word association

nounwərd əˌsōsēˈāSHən
  • The spontaneous and unreflective production of other words in response to a given word, as a game, a prompt to creative thought or memory, or a technique in psychiatric evaluation.

    (作为游戏,对创造性思维或回忆的提示,或精神病评估手段的)字词联想(由某给定词自发、不假思索地引出其他词)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Admittedly this may merely be the result of my own internal game of word association and therefore is perhaps a matter best dealt with internally.
    • I guess maybe somebody thought it would be fun for people to hunt through gobs of symbols, word association games, and answer various questions just so you can see the trailers.
    • Nevertheless, cultural learning influences behavioral patterns that may affect word meaning frequencies and bias word association responses.
    • Most of these studies have utilized a word association paradigm that produces ‘false memories’ by creating a high percentage of false alarms.
    • Scientists told a recent meeting of the British Psychological Society that men on weekly hormone injections, which raised their blood testosterone to twice the normal level, became much better at verbal tasks such as word association.
    • You don't like to play sports and you get confused easily since you like to do word association in your head when someone is talking.
    • Often, when people hear a gun company's name, an automatic game of word association begins.
    • Jade and Jeremy played a game of word association.
    • I thought I'd get to lie on a fainting couch and do ink blot tests and word association games.
    • Participants were told that they would be taking part in a study of word association, and at no point were they told of the parapsychological nature of the study.
    • Stanford used word association as a directed free-response task.
    • It combines elements of logical flow with questions of semantics, word association, and indeed outright mistake.
    • We feel like playing word association, and since it's our column, we're going to.
    • If politicians were asked to play word association, ‘health spending’ would be strongly linked with ‘bottomless pit’.
    • This is done through word games and word association.
    • It was like word association but also similar to a questionnaire.
    • I don't want to overestimate the significance of my own memory, but I suspect that this word association has larger implications for the way Americans generally view loyalty.
    • Jung claims to have discovered the concept during his word association and galvanic skin response experiments.
    • I remember we played some word association game for an hour and a half and then realised, when it had all got very silly, that we hadn't decided how it would end.
    • Unofficially, we coin names to describe the heat of a dish through word association; fire, degrees of heat, alarms, and so on.
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