Approximately one third of the population of Louisiana is African American. According to federal reports, Blacks in Louisiana receive a poorer quality of healthcare compared to the White population. Occupational therapy is a profession of predominately White, middle class females who report in surveys that they are not adequately prepared to…

The general problem of measuring the association between an independent nominal-scaled variable X and a dependent variable Y whose scale of measurement may be interval, ordinal, or nominal is discussed. (Author/RC)

The report of a study of junior high school students using a word association technique that demonstrated the existence of a linguistically distinct "Black English," which is quite diverse and is shared rather minimally by speakers not in contact with it. Educational implications of these findings are briefly discussed. (EH)

Results indicate that this psychological testing procedure is an effective screening device for patients presenting neuropathologic symptoms. (EK)

Free word association testing with 224 college students showed that the free word association patterns produced by adults to relatively unfamiliar adjective stimuli tended to be similar to the association patterns given by young children to common adjectives. Adult responses to familiar adjectives were essentially the same as older children's…

Since prior knowledge is positively linked with reading comprehension, methods of measuring prior knowledge are important. A word association test is a useful technique for evaluating topic familiarity and enables the teacher to make decisions about how much additional information is needed for students to process a text successfully. (SRT)

The effect of a classification, or encoding, task on intentional free recall was examined. Examination of the serial position curves for immediate and free recall shows clear effects assigned to long-term store. Consideration of effects regarding levels of processing gives a parallel account differing only in terminology and emphasis. (CHK)

The effects of exposure to violent video games on automatic associations with the self were investigated in a sample of 121 students. Playing the violent video game Doom led participants to associate themselves with aggressive traits and actions on the Implicit Association Test. In addition, self-reported prior exposure to violent video games…

Of all the studies examining recognition of semantically related words, none has systematically varied lag to test the straightforward prediction of a monotonic decrease in false alarms to new words semantically related to prior words. The present experiment, using semantic associates, tested this prediction. (Author)

Data appear to show that success on a cloze task or a RIP task is only vaguely related to the kind of associational fluency tapped by the markers employed. (Author/MB)

Relative efficiency of strategies in eliciting word identifications was explored with 11 aphasic and 11 nonaphasic adults. Though number of words identified were similar, and low infralogical and low logical clues were equally efficient in eliciting target words, high logical and high infralogical clues were more efficient with nonaphasic…