word association
Thought-triggering game
Word association is a technique where one person says a word and another responds with the first word that comes to mind: I say "black," you say "white".
Psychologists use it to probe unconscious thoughts and connections.
The term also describes any mental linking between related concepts—the word association between "beach" and "vacation" drives tourism advertising.
What prompts a reaction
- responseAnswer to stimulus
- primingMaking ready beforehand
- FreudFounder of psychoanalysis
- JungAnalytical psychology founder
Rorschach · subconscious · projection · conditioning · implicit · cognitive · test · therapy
Technique for retention
- recallMemory retrieval act
- cueTrigger for action
- triggerWhat initiates action
- encodingConverting data to format
retrieval · semantic · episodic · flashbulb · nostalgia · reminiscence · hippocampus · long-term
Conventional phrase pattern
- connotationImplied sense, not dictionary
- synonymWord meaning the same
- antonymWord with contrary meaning
- thesaurusSynonym and antonym compendium
lexical · co-occurrence · corpus · frequency · context · meaning · relatedness · polysemy
Wordless guessing game
- triviaUnimportant miscellaneous facts
- ScrabbleTile-based word game
- hangmanOne who kills condemned
- TabooCulturally prohibited practice
Pictionary · crossword · Bananagrams · password · guessing · clue · puzzle · wordplay
Forming mental concepts
- clusteringForming concentrated groups
- whiteboardErasable marker writing surface
- sticky-notesAdhesive memo papers
- facilitationMaking tasks easier
workshop · spontaneous · session · collaboration · warm-up · prompt · flow · inspiration
stimulus
What prompts a reaction
Jung · Rorschach · subconscious · projection · conditioning · implicit · cognitive · test · therapy · diagnosis
mnemonic
Technique for retention
encoding · retrieval · semantic · episodic · flashbulb · nostalgia · reminiscence · hippocampus · long-term · recognition
collocation
Conventional phrase pattern
- connotationImplied sense, not dictionary
- synonymWord meaning the same
- antonymWord with contrary meaning
thesaurus · lexical · co-occurrence · corpus · frequency · context · meaning · relatedness · polysemy · network
charades
Wordless guessing game
Taboo · Pictionary · crossword · Bananagrams · password · guessing · clue · puzzle · wordplay · vocabulary
ideation
Forming mental concepts
- clusteringForming concentrated groups
- whiteboardErasable marker writing surface
- sticky-notesAdhesive memo papers
facilitation · workshop · spontaneous · session · collaboration · warm-up · prompt · flow · inspiration · technique
- party gamescharades, musical statues, musical chairs, truth or dare, spin the bottle
- word gamescrossword, Scrabble, crossword puzzle, anagram, anagrams
- memorizationrote learning, cramming, mnemonics, rehearsal, by heart
- memory aidsmnemonics, mnemonic, reminders, reminder, cue cards
- road trip activitieslicense plate game, slug bug, punch buggy, alphabet game, travel bingo
- texting gamestruth or dare, would you rather, never have I ever, this or that, rapid fire
word associationlogical reasoning
Structured thought process
analytical thinking · systematic thinking · critical thinking · critical analysis · deductive reasoning
word associationlogical proof
Valid argument establishing truth
deductive reasoning · thesis statement · expository writing · mathematical proof · scientific method
word, association, disassociate, associative, reassociate, disassociative