Word Association Tests - Statistics & numerical data
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Strong claims and weak evidence: reassessing the predictive validity of the IAT.

29 Apr 2009 The authors reanalyzed data from 2 influential studies-A. R. McConnell and J. M. Leibold and J. C. Ziegert and P. J. Hanges-that explore links between implicit bias and discriminatory behavior and that have been invoked to support strong claims ... Read more...

Effects of depressive disorder on false memory for emotional information.

30 Dec 2008 BACKGROUND: This study explored with a false memory paradigm whether (1) depressed patients revealed more false memories and (2) whether more negative false than positive false recognition existed in subjects with depressive disorders. METHODS: ... Read more...

Semantic error patterns on the Boston Naming Test in normal aging, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and mild Alzheimer's disease: is there semantic disruption?

30 Oct 2008 Naming difficulty is common in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the nature of this problem is not well established. The authors investigated the presence of semantic breakdown and the pattern of general and semantic errors in patients with mild AD, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Word Association Tests - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Strong claims and weak evidence: reassessing the predictive validity of the IAT. 29 Apr 2009
• Effects of depressive disorder on false memory for emotional information. 30 Dec 2008
• Semantic error patterns on the Boston Naming Test in normal aging, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and mild Alzheimer's disease: is there semantic disruption? 30 Oct 2008
• Working memory capacity moderates the predictive effects of drug-related associations on substance use. 30 Aug 2008
• Functional-anatomical organization of predicate metaphor processing. 7 Aug 2008
• Effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor-catecholamine-O-methyltransferase gene interaction on schizophrenic symptoms. 14 Jul 2008
• The hemodynamics of cognitive control: the level of concentration of oxygenated hemoglobin in the superior prefrontal cortex varies as a function of performance in a modified Stroop task. 17 Jun 2008
• Recollection and familiarity in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: a global decline in recognition memory. 31 Jan 2008
• Spreading activation of lexical-semantic networks in Parkinson's disease. 31 Jan 2008
• A database of associative strengths from the strength-sampling model: a theory-based supplement to the Nelson, McEvoy, and Schreiber word association norms. 30 Jan 2008
• Detecting response bias with performance patterns on an expanded version of the Controlled Oral Word Association Test. 30 Dec 2007
• The effects of cortisol increase on long-term memory retrieval during and after acute psychosocial stress. 24 Dec 2007
• Autobiographical memory specificity predicts social problem-solving ability in old and young adults. 30 Aug 2007
• The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex contributes to successful relational memory encoding. 14 May 2007
• Personalizing the alcohol-IAT with individualized stimuli: relationship with drinking behavior and drinking-related problems. May 2007
• Comparison of indirect assessments of association as predictors of marijuana use among at-risk adolescents. 30 Mar 2007
• Changes in implicit associations do not occur simultaneously to Pavlovian conditioning of physiological anxiety responses. 18 Dec 2006
• When do ego threats lead to self-regulation failure? Negative consequences of defensive high self-esteem. 30 Aug 2006
• Divergent thinking in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia. 30 Aug 2006
• Mild executive dysfunctions in undergraduates are related to recollecting words never presented. 30 Aug 2006

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Technical information about 'Word Association Tests'

Definition: Lists of words to which individuals are asked to respond ascertaining the conceptual meaning held by the individual.

Descriptor UI: D014936

Alternative terms: Word Association Tests; Association Test, Word; Association Tests, Word; Test, Word Association; Tests, Word Association; Word Association Test;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F04.711.647.905;

History Note: 69

Technical Notes: DF: WORD ASSOC TESTS