the present article studies one of the new methods of story narration which reviews the constant stream of thoughts and feelings inside the minds of the characters of the story. one of the basic objectives of applying this technique is having freedom in the regular elements of theme and plot. instead of codes the story is based on tangible and touchable realities so that the reader will be able...

Previous studies demonstrated that statistical properties of adult generated free associates predict the order of early noun learning. We investigate an explanation for this phenomenon that we call the associative structure of language: early word learning may be driven in part by contextual diversity in the learning environment, with contextual diversity in caregiver speech correlating with th...

Single-response free association has been the standard method for creating associates for a target word, but it has shortcomings when the objective is to create a broad set of associates. There are also some pragmatic challenges such as the preponderance of idiosyncratic responses and the lack of associate diversity when a strong associate is present. A multiple-response free association task w...

BACKGROUND Professionalism should be included as a fundamental component in the curriculum of undergraduate as well as graduate students of Medicine. Future physicians should be aware of the attributes that a professional should possess. AIM To analyze the ideal medical doctor attributes from the point of view of physicians and students of Medicine. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred four phy...

The present study is an attempt to apply the free association method to a group of psychoneurotic adults in order to determine the association tendencies characteristic of psychoneurotic individuals. More specifically, the problem is to determine the various features shown, relations between these features, the differentiation of the psychoneurotic association pattern from that of the juvenile,...

In this paper, we illustrate several key differences between our approach to interpreting accounts of research subjects and those of other qualitative researchers. In particular, we work with a theoretical premise of a defended, rather than unitary, rational subject. The methodological implications that we discuss here are two-fold: this subject can best be interpreted holistically; and central...

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) was designed to measure automatically activated attitudinal associations, free of the influence of processes that affect their expression. Subsequent research has shown that IAT performance also is influenced by non-associative processes, but the extent to which these non-associative processes are content-specific or if they operate similarly regardless of th...

The repeated suppression of thoughts in response to cues for their expression leads to forgetting on a subsequent test of cued recall (Anderson & Green, 2001). We extended this effect by using homograph cues and presenting them for free association following suppression practice. Cue-target pairs were first learned under integrating imagery instructions; then in the think/no-think phase student...

The scope of the study was to identify the structure of social representations regarding health and illness as expressed by representatives of social movements. The study included 66 members of social movements in the Federal District of Brazil. A questionnaire was applied to obtain the socio-economic profile of the participants and the free association technique was used in order to identify t...

Psycho-analysis was developing as a method of treatment and investigation utilizing introspection at the same time as many academic psychologists in the United States were becoming disillusioned with introspection as a method of observation in research. While analysts hoped to build a general psychology on findings derived from the special kind of introspection involved in "free association", b...