Use word associations or rhymes.
"People had word associations of 'pretzel' or 'weasel,' " Mr. Haig said.
A psychologist wanted her to place figures on a board, and make word associations.
Talk of the Town: Let's do word associations: "Constitution" — what's the first thing that comes to mind?
There is an unnamed but equivalent phenomenon with word associations, when particular terms get stuck together and can't be separated.
Mr. Bochner, a veteran Conceptualist, paints word associations, starting with words like nothing, mistake, stupid and meaningless, the associations becoming angrier and more obscene.
The mind can be a jammed clutch when shifting in and out of language gears, making life an endless exercise in word associations.
In the early nineteen-sixties, two psychologists, David Palermo and James Jenkins, began amassing a huge table of word associations, the first thoughts that come to mind when people are asked to reflect on a particular word.
Students exposed to those songs reported lower levels of hostility than those who had heard purely violent songs, but they were still drawn to the more violent options on a number of tests that relied on word associations.
Instead, each episode's three celebrity contestants must make rapid fire knowledge and word associations pitted against one another and the clock, with the winner being crowned the "smartest person in the world" for a day.
Wordnik, which has raised $12.8 million in venture financing, plans to use its vast database of words and word associations at the site and in many business partnerships to be announced this year, said Joe Hyrkin, the president and C.E.O.
