The roll of suspiciousness on word association test performance

Abstract

The present study investigated the role of suspiciousness in elicitation of idiosyncratic word association, long reaction time and repetition of word before responding on word association test performance. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant mean difference between high and low suspiciousness group for word association test performance. To test the null hypotheses the response of 200 male post graduate students for suspiciousness and what association test performance were subjected to a computerized statistical analysis through SPSS 10.0 version for groups statistics of median, mean, S.D., S. E. ,and t- test for equality of means. The table 4.10 shows that there is a significant main difference acceptable at 0.01 level of confidence in those high and low on suspiciousness for long reaction time (t =-5.967). But the significant difference for UR (t =-0.392) and PR (t = 0.151) was not observed and is not accepted acceptable even at 0.01 level of confidence.