Carl Jung's Word Association Test (WAT)

Whenever psychologists are working instruments on occasion the most effective instruments can be the instruments that were based on word association. One of the foremost instruments that looked the word association is that of Carl Jung’s Word Association Test (WAT). Carl Jung’s Word Association Test (WAT) studied how just by asking one word could be associated with so many different assumptions. Even though, Carl Jung’s Word Association Test (WAT) isn’t used as therapy as much there are still plenty of diverse and surprising ways that it is still used today. However before knowing how it is used today and how reliable the Word Association Test (WAT) the first step is to figure out what specific type of instrument it is.
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When Carl Jung’s Word Association Test (WAT) was developed it only targeted three specific norm groups. Those three specific norm groups were the following: the amount of words said, how fast the words were spoken and abnormalities of responses. However as our language changes over time (ex. What’s up? Vs. Hello) the usage on the norm groups became very inconsistent. Additionally Carl Jung’s Word Association Test (WAT) could be collected on specific populations such as pre-teens all the way up to senior citizens. However for the results to be accurate the test must be done on the same group of individuals. Lastly the Word Association Test (WAT) can be used to study the similarities between family members. Therefore as our spoken language changes the overall multicultural influences and criticisms for the Word Association Test (WAT) will indeed take …show more content…
One example of this is that of the assessment named the Word Association Test (WAT). For the Word Association Test was based on the reaction time, verbal response, and test behavior of the patient however the reliability changes from person to person since it is based on the association of tens of hundreds of different group of words which could change from person to person. In addition the reliability could be questioned by the method that it was collected, the consistently of spoken words from the tester, and the treatment of the overall test. Henceforth when the reliability is questioned the validity will almost certainly be questioned. Some of the major validity implications of the Word Association Test (WAT) is that it is judgment, the amount of subjects who are tested and retested and in all little to no studies have ever looked at the reliability/validity of the Word Association Test (WAT). Even if there is no consistently on the reliability/validity there are always going to be tests done on subjects which will tend to data that could ultimately be used on certain specific