Independent groups of subjects generated restricted free associations that either rhymed with the cue or were members of the semantic category designated by the cue. The data include both a listing of the responses to each cue and a cross-index of all words appearing as responses to more than one cue. These data will permit researchers to take into account the a priori associative strength between cues and targets at these two levels of processing.
The instructions indicated that the experiment was designed to measure the strength of the relationship between words. The task was to write in the allotted time as many words as possible that exhibited a rhyme ending cues (e.g., "IME").