Perspectives on Personality: Jung’s Word Association Test

After watching Lisa and Sarah complete Jung’s Word Association test, answer the following

questions:

1. Did you see any themes or characteristic ways of responding in their responses? If so,

what impressions did you have?

Lisa’s Responses (50-75 words)

She often chose words that were opposite to the word given. As an example, he said

<hot=, and she responded with <cold=. I thought her response to <pride= caught my

attention the most. Both times, she thought for a while about the word and then

responded. It seemed like pride might have been a tough word to address or maybe

just too complex to put into one word.

Sarah’s Responses (50-75 words)

Her responses were mostly focused on personal, emotional associations with the

words. A few times the response felt very vulnerable. There was a lot of depth and

honesty. It also didn’t take her long to respond either which made her seem very

emotionally intelligent or self-aware.

2. Did you notice anything of significance in either of their responses? Any long latencies

to respond to any particular words, any tendencies to use particularly colorful, creative, or

imaginative associations or anything else that struck you? (75-100 words).

Lisa paused a few times. A couple of responses she gave were interesting to me. For

one, the word <sitting= was presented and she paused for a second then delivered

the answer <cold=. This made it seem like she thought of a memory when she was

sitting and felt cold in that memory, or she doesn’t like not moving and being still.

Another response that was interesting to me was the response of <cleaning= to the

word <cooking=. Made it seem like cooking is a chore or just another job for her.

Not necessarily enjoyable.

Sarah responded quickly with emotional responses but, one response that she

responded to the quickest was the word <pride=. She immediately responded with

<normal= which made me believe that she either feels prideful herself, deals with

prideful people in her social circle, or feels that we live in a prideful society. Her

responses changed a lot the second time around which made me think she shifts her

perspective on things often or just got tired.

Perspectives 3-Pointer

Theories Of Personality (PPE 4003)