Word-association
noun
1.
stimulation of an associative pattern by a word.
word association
noun
1.
an early method of psychoanalysis in which the patient thinks of the first word that comes into consciousness on hearing a given word. In this way it was claimed that aspects of the unconscious could be revealed before defence mechanisms intervene
noun
the connection and production of other words in response to a given word, done spontaneously as a game, creative technique, or in a psychiatric evaluation
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