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noun Psychology.
a technique for determining a subject's associative pattern by providing a verbal stimulus to which a verbal response is required.
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Origin of word association test

First recorded in 1945–50

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How to use word association test in a sentence

  • Melroy could hear a recording of somebody being given a word-association test.

    Day of the Moron|Henry Beam Piper
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