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    MANUAL FREE FOR ASSOCIATION (FAT) TEST (Word List Method) Mahesh Sharma AND Bharat Varshney Estd. 1971 © (0562) 364926 NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CORPORATION 4/230, KACHERI GHAT, AGRA - 282 004 (U. P.) INDIA the thr laws— MANUAL i FOR Lawo FREE ASSOCIATION TEST (FAT) pes pe SS ee differe Problem rere To study, whether the memory action of a subject is controlled and directed Gene, by the primary law of association. reapy Introduction partic idea Ther Quali It is but natural that some kind of relation is found in different experiences of any person because they are concerned with the same one person. Because of this inter-relationship being established in different experiences there is a possibility of developing in memory any other experience or idea when any one stimulant or experience presents. This mental process of development of Ass inter-relation between experience and ideas in a person is called ‘Association’. ‘ASS Development of Association process and ideas of inter-relation between Oey experience in any person is regulated according to some specific laws which are git called ‘Laws of Association’. Different laws of association can be divided into two groups—(i) Primary Laws, and (ii) Secondary Laws. stug Free Primary Laws of Association are first of all reffered in the essay of Aristotle att regarding ‘Memory’. According to Aristotle, relation between different a6 experiences of a person can be established in three ways—(i) Contiguity : oy relating time and space, (ii) Similiarity, and (iii) Contrast— and person is able to recollect his past experience because of these inter-relations. Though these laws tea are continously active in a person during any experience or consciousness but fre any law is in prominence at any particular instance. ‘Law of Contiguity’ among Manual for Free Association Test (FAT) | 3 the three laws is comparatively important and its effect on the other two laws—Similarity and Contrast—can be observed In 1820, Brown has described four complimentary laws of association—(i) | Law of Primacy, (ii) Law of Resancy, (iii) Law of Frequency, and (iv) Law of Vividness. Law of Primacy describes association-relation i.e., kinds of bonds between | different experiences and ideas, and complimentary association law describes the force of magnitude of inter-relation between different experiences and ideas. Generally, other idea or experience of the former idea or experience stimulates or reappears according to the Law of Primacy of Association. But why only a Particular idea or experience develops or stimulates not the other for a particular idea or experience, can be clarified through complimentary laws of association. Therefore, these laws can be said ‘Primary Laws’ of Association which are of Qualitative in nature and ‘Complimentary Laws’ which are of Quatitative in nature. First of all John Locke in 1700 presented the experiment regarding Association. Thomas Brown used ‘Suggestion’ or ‘Instruction’ instead of | ‘Association’. In eighteenth and nineteenth century, there was a hold of psychological sect ‘Associationism’, defining all the mental activities on the basis of ‘Association activity’. } First of all Thomas Hobbs defined two types of Association on experimental | studies (i) Free Association, and (ii) Controlled or Constrained Association. In Free Association subject is free to express his reaction willingly according to the _ situation. While in Controlled or Constrained Association, reactions of the subject are more or less controlled or instructed. Subject has to react according to some or one alternative partially or wholly controlled. In Free Association, subject looks to be completely free to express his reaction (speak word) but in fact subject is not completely free but he is relatively free. However freely subject expresses his reaction to the stimulant word, his 4 | Manual for Free Association | Tost (FAT)

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