Association, abstraction, and the conceptual organization of recall: implications for clinical tests.

ion in the WAIS Similarities Test. Object Sorting Experiments I and II investigate the effect of association upon abstraction in the BRL Object Sorting Test. Object Sorting Experiment III investigates the effect of association upon the conceptual organization of recall in the BRL. The data for these experiments were gathered in the following order: (a) Similarities Experiment I and Object Sorting Experiment I; (b) Similarities Experiment II and Object Sorting Experiment II; (c) Object Sorting Experiment III. SIMILARITIES EXPERIMENT I