Single word free association norms for 328 responses from the connecticut cultural norms for verbal items in categories

This chapter discusses single-word free-association norms for 328 responses from the Connecticut cultural norms for verbal items in categories. There are all sorts of ways in which the associative relation between two or more words can be measured. The stimulus items used in a study described in the chapter are presented with the rank and frequency with which these responses were given to the category name in the Connecticut norms listed beside each word. Stimulus items were selected from only 21 of the 43 categories, and the number of stimuli from each category ranged from 10 to 18 words. The frequency with which a word occurs as a response across the sample population of n = 100 determines the order of its listing in the norms. Thus, out of 100 Ss, 65 respond bird to the stimulus bluejay and this response, as the highest frequency response, is listed first in the associative responses to this stimulus. The normative data are presented in the sequence.