对单词联想测试选词和反应分类标准的再思考

Choice of Prompt Words and Classification of Responses in Word Association Tests:A Re-examination

心理语言学中常用联想反应测试来探究学习者心理词汇的存储、构建和表征。词汇联想测试的信度和效度取决于两个因素:选词标准和反应分类。本文回顾了以往词汇联想研究中对选择测试词采用的方法和对反应词的归类标准,分析了各自的不足和存在的问题,并提出了切实可行的解决办法。

Word association tests have been used in psycholinguistics to explore the storage,organization and representation of learners' mental lexicon. Two factors affect its reliability and validity:the choice of prompt words and the classification of responses. This paper first reviews the methods employed in the past word association studies and further analyzes respectively their defects and problems in choosing prompts and classifying responses. Viable proposals are put forward to refine the classification criteria.