Abstract

Earlier experimental work has attempted to account for Word Association Test response faults as being due to response entropy, thereby discounting emotional disturbance as an explanatory variable. The present study demonstrates that response entropy is a function of the emotional connotation of the stimulus word, for both college and schizophrenic Ss, and that this affective variable is more important than stimulus familiarity in determining the response variability.

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