Oral Associative Reactions of Russians and Germans to Names of Mental States: Comparative and Quantitative Analysis
Abstract
The article describes a cross-cultural study of associative oral representation of mental states. 32 Russian and 33German students – 53 female and 12 male aged from 20 up to 24 years participated in the research. The experimental procedure was developed on the basis of the DMDX program allowed to measure the time of speech response to the shown stimuli – names of 25 mental states. In the conditions of time deficiency probands had to call free and estimated associations (adjectives). The mean reaction time was calculated, quantitative content of
associative fields was analyzed. In the Russian group associations (both free and estimated in the form of an adjective) to names of mental states were more quickly named. The average time of free oral associative reaction in the Russian group was 2114.6 ms, in the German - 2163.6 ms. The estimated associative response proved slower than the free associative response in both groups: the average time of the estimated oral associative reaction in the Russian group was 2246.9 ms, in the German – 2384.6 ms. During the experiment more evaluation associations in the form of adjectives were named than free ones. The vast majority of free associations to names of mental states were nouns. Most of the associations to names of mental states are unique.
Key words: mental state, associative experiment, associative representation, oral reaction, quantitative analysis.
DOI 10.18522/1995-0640-2020-3-46-57
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