free association
free association
Definition
free association
noun
- Psychoanalysis the technique of having the patient talk spontaneously, expressing without inhibition whatever ideas, memories, etc. come to mind: used to discover repressed material in the unconscious
- any process of mental association in which spontaneous or nonlogical linking takes place
free association
Usage Examples
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- produce: After studying words of positive, neutral, and negative affective valences, subjects produced free associations to various cues.
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