Swartz JD, Moran LJ. Association Structures Of Bright Children At Ages Nine And Twelve.
MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH 1968;
3:189-198. [PMID:
26814566 DOI:
10.1207/s15327906mbr0302_4]
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Abstract
The factor structure of free word associations of children, age 9 and 12, was the same as that for adults. Idiodynamic associative sets of 9-year-old children predicted their commonality scores, but not their reaction times. Both of these variables were predicted by the idiodynamic sets of 12-year-old children. It was speculated that idiodynamic associative sets reflect the organization (independent of culture) of the personal word "dictionary" evolved by children in preschool years, that a "common" (dependent upon culture) association hierarchy evolves independently of the "dictionary," and that variability in free word association dependent variables is a partial function of conflict between these two association hierarchies.
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