The role of psychoticism elicitation of idiosyncratic word association long reaction time and repetition of word before responding on word association test performance

Page: 509-510

Gurnam Singh (GNC, Sirsa, Haryana)

The present study investigated the role of psychoticism in elicitation of idiosyncratic word association long reaction time and repetition of word before responding onward association test performance. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant mean difference between high and low psychoticism group for word association test performance. To test null hypothesis the response of 200 male post graduate students for psychoticism and word association test performance were subjected to a computerized statistical analysis through SPSS 10.0 version for group statistics of median, mean, standard deviation, standard error mean and t-test for equality of means.It was found that there is a significant mean difference acceptable at 0.01 level of confidence in those high and low on psychoticism for long reaction time (t=-3.110). But the significant difference for UR (t=0.558) and RR (t=-0.771) was not observed.