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Word Association Test- How to write Better?

1.What is Word Assoication Test (WAT)?

Word-association techniques The list of projective approaches to personality assessment is long, one of the most venerable being the so-called word-association test. Jung used associations to groups of related words as a basis for inferring personality traits (e.g., the inferiority “complex”). Administering a word-association test is relatively uncomplicated; a list of words is presented one at a time to the subject who is asked to respond with the first word or idea that comes to mind. Many of the stimulus words may appear to be emotionally neutral (e.g., building, first, tree); of special interest are words that tend to elicit personalized reactions (e.g., mother, hit, love). The amount of time the subject takes before beginning each response and the response itself are used in efforts to analyze a word association test. The idiosyncratic, or unusual, nature of one’s word-association responses may be gauged by comparing them to standard published tables of the specific associations given by large groups of other people. unconscious wishes, and deep-seated conflicts. Such objective information is measured by behavioral assessment. It is often used to identify behavioral problems
Cognitive assessment The types of thoughts experienced by individuals are reflective of their personalities. Just as it is important to know what people do and how their behaviour affects others, it is also necessary to assess the thoughts that may lie behind the behaviour. Cognitive assessment provides information about thoughts that precede, accompany, and follow maladaptive behaviour. It also provides information about the effects of procedures that are intended to modify both how subjects think about a problem and how they behave.
The assessment of thoughts and ideas is a relatively new development.
It has received impetus from the growing evidence that thought processes and the content of thoughts are related to emotions and behaviour. Cognitive assessment provides information about adaptive and maladaptive aspects of people’s thoughts and the role their thoughts play in the processes of planning, making decisions, and interpreting reality.
This test is also called ‘Confirmatory Test’ to TAT or ‘Idea Writing Test’. This means that Word Association Test confirms qualities that you display in Thematic Apperception Test. Giving WAT immediately after the TAT brings your natural qualities in front of the assessors.
The words shown can be used in any form and tense. Example, ‘die’ can be used as ‘died’ or ‘dying’. A total of 60 words is shown for 15 seconds each in which the candidate has to form a meaningful sentence from it. It is recommended that a candidate attempts a minimum of 55 words. The test lasts for 15 minutes.
Make your own sentences:
Steer away from sentences that you have memorised or have learnt during practice. This shows a lack of originality. Instead, try making a link to the previous sentence as this is more natural and try showing your OLQ’s through the sentences. E.g. for the word “Die”, don’t just write “Do or Die is a slogan given by Gandhiji”. Instead write, “I’m a die-hard cricket fan”. The sentence is both positive and shows your creative ability.
Make sure you write meaningful and logical sentences. Don’t use your imaginary power too much while forming sentences in WAT. Make real sentences and be grounded.
Write grammatically correct sentences and maintain a good handwriting. This is just something that no one will tell you and no one will bother telling. But through this, the assessors test your ability to remain calm and composed under pressure.
A person struggling to write sentences with bad handwriting and scribbling answers is more likely not to have the ability to remain calm and composed under pressure. Don’t make sentences related to Defence too much. Writing sentences solely on defence will not take you anywhere. Instead, it shows a lack of originality and thoughts.
Do not give suggestion or advice to the board or to anyone implicitly through the sentences.
For instance, for the work ‘bring’, don’t write, ‘India should bring back Dawood Ibrahim’. India knows what to do well, so don’t give advice to anyone, which takes us to our next point:
Don’t use words like should, could, might, ought, can, may, must, etc. too much. Again, these form the basis of imaginary sentences.
Keep the sentences to as short as possible. I’d say, sentences having 4-10 words are optimal. Don’t make it too short or too long.
While thinking about a sentence to make from a word, think of the first image that comes to your mind. This is your original idea of that word.
Now, try to make a positive sentence from that word or relate that image to a positive story or current affair. From negative words, try negating the words or having remedial approach. For example, for the word ‘hate’, try remedial approach as, ‘Love overcomes the fear hatred’. In negating this word, you can go, “A mother do not hate her children”.
If, for some words, you are unable to form full sentences, just write your idea about that sentence in a word or two. T he assessor will understand what you want to convey.
For instance, for the word ‘imagination’, if you couldn’t complete sentence within the given time, just write “good”. The assessor will understand that you are conveying something about good imagination or are stating that imagination is good. The last thing about succeeding in WAT is practice a lot with a timer.

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