Similar to an implicit association test for adults -- which asks participants to quickly associate words such as "self" and "pleasant" or "unpleasant" -- the preschoolers were asked to associate objects.
Toddlers just learning to speak associate words with shape, not size or texture.
In general, the observers reported some difficulty to associate words with a theme.
To associate words with these topics (plus an unrelated category, other), we follow an open vocabulary approach [14].
"One of the projects we're particularly interested in trying out very soon is getting baboons to associate words with some kind of meaning," Grainger says.
In the case of women and science, people might be asked to very quickly associate words like "woman" or "wife" with terms like "astronomy" or "physics".
Studies of Implicit Bias where you are asked to quickly associate words with faces demonstrate that we are nearly universally less able to quickly associate darker faces with positive words, though white respondents find it more difficult than non-whites.
They gave people a simple learning task to associate words with images then later showed them the words alone and asked them to remember the accompanying images in as much detail as possible.
We allow for any desired word neighbourhood and associate words with weights such that the signal of words matching exactly is not lost.
Our brains associate words with pictures automatically.
Two hundred associated word pairs (thus 400 words) were selected from among the Nelson, McEvoy, and Schreiber (2004) norms, with all associated items being one of three strongest associations of the target word (e.g., table chair).
