A Study of Association in Insanity
by
Grace Helen Kent

Part 14 out of 14




tempted 1
terrified 1
terror 9
thief 3
thought 1
threaten 1
thunder 1
timid 55
timidity 2
to-night 1
tremble 2
trouble 1
trust 1

unable 1
uncertain 1
uneasy 5
unhappiness 1
unknown 1
unprotected 1

woman 1
women 1
worried 1
worry 3



APPENDIX TO THE FREQUENCY TABLES



General Rules

1. Any word combination which is to be found in the frequency
tables, but only in the reverse order from that in which it occurs
in a test record under consideration, is to be classed as a normal
reaction.

2. Any reaction word which is a synonym or an antonym of
the corresponding stimulus word is to be classed as normal.


1. TABLE

Any food or meal.

Any room or apartment

Any article of table linen, china, silver, or furnishings.

Word designating any special variety of tables.

Any word pertaining to appetite.


2. DARK

Any source of illumination.

Any enclosure from which light is wholly or in a large measure
excluded.

Word referring to physiological pigmentation of tissues exposed to
view.

Any division of the diurnal cycle.

Any color or coloring material.

Anything which obscures light.


3. MUSIC

Any musical instrument.

Name of any composer or musician.

Special or general name of any musical composition.

Term designating rhythm, tempo, loudness, or pitch.

Name of any dance.

Term expressing subjective effect of music.


4. SICKNESS

Term designating any disease, symptom, injury, or physiological
function.

Any cause of disease.

Any means or measure of treatment of disease.

Any anatomical organ or region.

Word denoting mode of termination, results, consequences, or indirect
effects of disease.

Any term of prognostic import.

Common or proper name of any person.


5. MAN

Word denoting or implying age of a person.

Any of the well-known male sexual characteristics.

Occupation or profession more or less peculiarly masculine.

Word pertaining to familial relationships or domestic organization.

Word pertaining to sexual relationships; any word denoting the
opposite sex.

The proper name of any male person.

Any article of male apparel.


6. DEEP

Any vessel or container.

Any natural or artificial body of water.

Any depression of surface.

Any object naturally situated or often artificially placed at a
comparatively great distance below the surface.

Any act of progress from surface to depth.


7. SOFT

Any article of food.

Any fabric.


8. EATING

Any article of table linen, china, or silver.

Any organ of digestion; any function of nutrition.

Any article of food; any meal.

Any private or public eating place.

Word denoting taste.


9. MOUNTAIN

Name of any mountain, mountain range, or mountainous country.

Word pertaining to shape, geological composition, fauna, or flora of
mountains or mountainous regions.

Any term of physical geography.


10. HOUSES

Any place of house location.

Any part of a house.

Any material used in the construction of a house.

Any part of the process of construction of a house.

Laborer or mechanic having to do with the construction of a house.

Any commercial term pertaining to ownership, taxes, mortgages, sale,
renting, or occupancy of a house.

Any article of furniture.


11. BLACK

Any object or substance that is always or often black or dark in
color.

Any color.

Word denoting limitation or obscuration of light.

Any word clearly related to the word Black used as a proper name.


12. MUTTON

Any article of food; any meal.

Any animal, or class or group of animals, whose meat is used for human
consumption as food.

Any article of table linen, china, silver; any cooking utensil.

Word designating any person engaged in the preparation of meats for
consumption.

Word denoting any process employed in the preparation of meats for
consumption.


13. COMFORT

Any agreeable or disagreeable subjective state.

Any object, act, or condition that contributes to comfort or produces
discomfort.


14. HAND

Any simple function of the hand; work requiring special manipulation.

Word denoting skill or any degree of skill.

Any part or any tissue of the body.


15. SHORT

Any word involving the concept of duration.

Common or proper name of any person.

Any word denoting shape, relative or absolute dimension, or distance.

Any object in which characteristically one dimension exceeds any
other.


16. FRUIT

Any article of food; any meal.

Any process employed in the cultivation of fruits or in their
preparation for consumption.

Word designating any person engaged in the cultivation of fruits or in
their preparation for consumption.

Any article of table linen, china, or silver.


17. BUTTERFLY

Any bird, worm, or insect

Any flower.

Any color.


18. SMOOTH

Any object possessing a smooth surface as a characteristic feature.

Any fabric.


19. COMMAND

Word denoting any means of influence of one mind upon another intended
to produce acquiescence.

Word denoting or implying acquiescence or lack of it.

Term applied to any commanding officer or to any person in authority.


20. CHAIR

Any article of furniture.

Any room or apartment


21. SWEET

Any substance having a sweet taste.

Common or proper name of a child' or woman.


22. WHISTLE

Any instrument or any animal producing a shrill musical sound.



33. WOMAN

Word denoting or implying age of a person.

Any of the well-known female sexual characteristics.

Occupation or profession more or less peculiarly feminine.

Word pertaining to familial relationships or domestic organization.

Word pertaining to sexual relationships; any word denoting the
opposite sex.

Name of any female person.

Any article of female apparel.


24. COLD

Name of any location characterized by low temperature.

Any illness or symptom which may be caused by exposure to cold.

Any division of the annual cycle.

Any food that is always or often served cold.

Any means or measure of protection against cold.

Any state of the natural elements causing a sensation of cold.

Word denoting subjective characterization of or reaction to cold.


25. SLOW

Any means or manner of locomotion.

Any word involving the concept of rate of progress with reference
either to time or to intensity of action.

Common or proper name of any person.


26. WISH

Word implying fulfillment of a wish either by achievement or through
acquiescence.

Word implying non-fulfillment of a wish.

Word denoting any state of longing or anticipation.

Word denoting any state free from longing or anticipation.

Word denoting a prayer or request.

Word denoting a state of happiness.


27. RIVER

Any body of water.

Any part of a river.

Any plant or animal living in rivers.

Any term of physical geography.

Any vessel or contrivance for navigation.


28. WHITE

Any object or substance that is always or often white or very light in
color.

Any color.

Any word clearly related to the word White used as a proper name.


29. BEAUTIFUL

Any word denoting aesthetic pleasure.

Name or any female person.

Any product of the fine arts or of decorative handicraft.

Any decorative plant or flower.

Any article of attire.

Natural scenery.

Any division of the diurnal cycle.


30. WINDOW

Any word pertaining to illumination.

Word pertaining to movements of air.

Any attachment to a window for the control of transmission of light or
air.

Any building or apartment


31. ROUGH

Any object or substance which is characteristically rough to the
touch.

Word denoting or implying irregularity of surface.

Any skin lesion which may impart to the skin the quality of roughness.

Any word implying carelessness, lack of consideration, or crudeness;
any word used to designate action or conduct which may be
characterized as careless, inconsiderate, or crude.


32. CITIZEN

Any word pertaining to political organization, or to factors either
favorable or unfavorable to it.

Any term or proper name of political geography.

Common or proper name of any male person.


33. FOOT

Any means or manner of locomotion involving the use of the feet.

Any part or any tissue of the animal body.

Any article of foot-wear.

Any way constructed or used for walking.

Any unit of linear measure.



34. SPIDER

Word employed to designate subjective characterization of or reaction
to an object of dislike.

Any insect.

Word pertaining to the characteristic habits of spiders, with
reference either to location and construction of nest, or to manner of
catching prey.


35. NEEDLE

Any material used in making clothes.

Any special sewing operation; any occupation in which sewing
constitutes part of the work.

Any special kind of needles.

Any instrument which is used in connection with a needle in any
operation, or of which a needle forms a part.


36. RED

Word which may be used to express subjective characterization of the
red color.

Any object or substance which is always or often red in color.

Anything which is by convention or common usage connected with the red
color.

Any organ, tissue, or lesion, exposed to view, which may have a red
color imparted to it by the blood or by physiological pigment

Any color or coloring material.

Any word implying light through incandescence.


37. SLEEP

Word denoting somnolence or a state of lowered consciousness; anything
which is a cause of somnolence or of lowered consciousness; anything
which induces a desire to sleep.

Word denoting a state of active consciousness or a transition from
lowered to more active consciousness.

Any division of the diurnal cycle.

Any word more or less commonly used to characterize sleep in any way.

Any article of bedding, bed-linen, or night-clothes.

Any article of furniture used for sitting or lying.


38. ANGER

Any affective state; any common demonstration of emotion.

Any common cause or provocation of anger.

Action or conduct caused by anger; word used to characterize such
action or conduct.


39. CARPET

Any material of which carpets are made.

Any article of house furniture, hangings, or decorations.

Word denoting home, house, or any part of a house.

Word pertaining to the manufacture or care of carpets, or denoting a
person engaged in the manufacture, sale, or care of carpets.

Any country especially noted for the manufacture of carpets or rugs.

Any color.


40. GIRL

Word denoting or implying age of a person.

Any of the well-known female sexual characteristics.

Occupation or profession more or less peculiarly feminine.

Word pertaining to familial relationships or domestic organization.

Word pertaining to sexual relationships; any word denoting the
opposite sex.

Name of any female person.

Any part of a person's body.

Any article of female apparel.


41. HIGH

Any word denoting or implying skill, training, achievement, or
position.

Any word denoting or implying valuation.

Any architectural structure.

Any object of which the vertical dimension characteristically exceeds
any other.

Any act of progress from a lower to a higher level.

Name of any mountain or mountain range.

Anything characteristically situated at a high level.

Anything characteristically variable in height.


42. WORKING

Any occupation, profession, art, or labor.

Direct results or consequences of work.

Any place of employment.

Rest, recreation, inaction, or disinclination to work.

Word denoting energy, material, capital, equipment.


43. SOUR

Any substance or object which is always or often sour in taste.

Any word denoting a taste or flavor quality.


44. EARTH

Any substance which enters into the composition of soil.

Word pertaining to the utilization or cultivation of natural
resources; any product of agriculture.

Any term of physical geography, geology, mineralogy, meteorology, or
astronomy.


45. TROUBLE

Any affective state.

Any general cause of active emotional states.

Any common manifestation of emotion.

Word denoting or implying defeat.

Word denoting or implying caution or lack of it.

Any task.


46. SOLDIER

Word pertaining to military organization.

Word pertaining to any military operation.

Word pertaining to military discipline or to military decoration.

Any article of military or naval equipment or attire.

Common or proper name of any male person.

Name of any country.

Word pertaining to political organization.


47. CABBAGE

Any article of food; any meal.

Any article of table linen, china, silver; any cooking utensil.

Any process of cooking.

Word used to designate any person engaged in the cultivation of
cabbages or in their preparation for consumption.


48. HARD

Any solid article of food.

Word denoting or implying impact.

Any task or labor.

Any substance which is hard or unyielding.

Any agency or process by which a substance is solidified or hardened.

Any article of furniture used for sitting or lying.

Any trait of disposition characterized by lack of readiness to yield
or lack of consideration for others.


49. EAGLE

Any bird.

Any piece of currency.

Anything in connection with which the word eagle is used in a symbolic
sense.


50. STOMACH

Any anatomical organ or region.

Any article of food; any meal.

Word pertaining to ingestion and assimilation of food.

Term denoting health or disease; any medicament.


51. STEM

Any object which has a stem.

Any part of a plant.

Any object which is long, slender, and more or less rigid.


52. LAMP

Any means or source of illumination.

Word denoting or implying illumination.


53. DREAM

Any product of imagination.

Any psychical phenomenon; any part of the psychical organ.

Word denoting or implying unreality or uselessness.

Word denoting or implying mystery or occultism.

Any division of the diurnal cycle.

Any article of bedding, bed-linen or night-clothes.

Any article of furniture used for sitting or lying.

Any narcotic substance.


54. YELLOW

Word which may be used to denote subjective characterization of the
yellow color.

Any object or substance which is always or often yellow in color.

Any color or coloring material.


55. BREAD

Any article of food; any meal

Any article of table linen, china, or silver; any cooking utensil.

Any private or public eating place.

Word pertaining to ingestion and assimilation of food.

Any ceremony in connection with which bread is used.


56. JUSTICE

Any word implying crime or tendency to crime, legal trial, retribution
or lack of it, or repentance.

Any officer of the law.

Word pertaining to judiciary organization.

Word denoting any kind of ethical relationship.

Any deity.

The name of any justice or judge.

Any function of a judicial authority.

Any word denoting or implying equality.


57. BOY

Word denoting or implying age of a person.

Word pertaining to familial relationships or domestic organization.

Word pertaining to sexual relationships; any word denoting the
opposite sex.

Common or proper name of any male person.

Any part of a person's body.

Any article of male apparel.

Any common boys toy or game.

Word pertaining to educational organization.


58. LIGHT

Any source, apparatus, or means of illumination.

Any color or coloring material.

Word implying light through incandescence.

Any term of optics; any optical phenomenon.

Any object or substance which is characteristically light in weight.


59. HEALTH

Any emotion; any common manifestation of emotion.

Any disease or symptom.

Word pertaining to prevention or treatment of disease.

Word pertaining to any normal bodily function.

Word pertaining to the preservation of health.

Word denoting or implying a state of health.

Any athletic sport or form of exercise.

Any anatomical organ or region.


60. BIBLE

Name of any personage mentioned in the Bible.

Any religion or religious denomination.

Any name or attribute employed in reference to the Deity.

Any article or act of religious ritual.

Word denoting or implying belief, disbelief, or doubt.

Any term of theology.


61. MEMORY

Word pertaining to operations, faculties, endowment, training, or condition of the mind.

Word denoting any degree of accuracy.

Word denoting the cranium; any part of the psychical organ.

Word pertaining to the past.

Any word implying transiency.

Any subject of study involving the exercise of memory.

Any method or means for the reinforcement of memory.

Any of the senses.

Word denoting retention.


62. SHEEP

Any animal raised or hunted for clothing material, for food, or for
its services as a beast of burden.

Any product manufactured from the skin or wool of sheep.

Any of the more or less distinctive characteristics of sheep.

Any food product derived from sheep.


63. BATH

Word denoting or implying an effect of bathing on the body.

Any body of water.

Any kind of bath; any part of bath, lavatory, or toilet equipment.

Any material of which a bathing equipment is largely made.

Word denoting a state of partial or complete undress.

Any beach or bathing resort.

Any aquatic feat of gymnastics.


64. COTTAGE

Word pertaining to landscape gardening.

Any place of cottage location.

Any part of a house; any color.

Any material used in the construction of a cottage.

Any laborer or mechanic having to do with the construction of a cottage.

Any part of the process of construction of a cottage.

Any commercial term pertaining to ownership, taxes, mortgages, sale,
renting, or occupancy of a cottage.

Any article of furniture.


65. SWIFT

Any means or manner of locomotion.

Word denoting or implying motion or rate of motion.

Any animal or familiar object characterized by rapid locomotion.

Any word clearly related to the word Swift used as a proper name.


66. BLUE

Word which may be used to express subjective characterization of the
blue color.

Any object or substance which is always or often blue in color.

Anything which is by convention or common usage connected with the
blue color.

Any organ, tissue, or lesion, exposed to view, which may have a blue
color imparted to it by the blood or by physiological pigment.

Any color or coloring material.


67. HUNGRY

Any animal.

Any article of food; any meal.

Word denoting taste or flavor.

Word denoting or implying privation or torture.

Any article of table linen, china, or silver.

Any private or public eating place.

Any organ of digestion; any function of nutrition.

Word designating any person engaged in the preparation or sale of
foods.


68. PRIEST

Any religion or denomination.

Any article or act of religious ritual.

Any term of theology.

Word denoting or implying sanctity.

Word denoting or implying belief, disbelief, or doubt.

Word pertaining to church organization.

Proper name of any priest.

Any article of clerical attire.

Any profession more or less peculiarly masculine.


69. OCEAN

Any body of water.

Any plant or animal living in the ocean.

Any term of physical geography.

Any vessel or contrivance for navigation.

Word pertaining to navigation; any nautical term.

Common or proper name of any place bordering on the ocean.

Any aquatic feat of gymnastics.


70. HEAD

Any organization which has a person occupying the highest office.

Word denoting or implying the highest office of any organization.

Any intellectual faculty, quality, or operation.

Any part of the head.

Any pathological condition affecting the head.


71. STOVE

Any part of a stove.

Any kitchen utensil.

Any artificial heating apparatus; any fuel.

Any manner of cooking; any person engaged in cooking food.

Any article of household furniture.


72. LONG

Any word involving the concept of duration.

Word denoting shape, relative or absolute dimension, or distance.

Any object in which characteristically one dimension exceeds any
other.


73. RELIGION

Any religion or denomination; the name of any race or nation.

Any term of theology.

Any branch of metaphysical philosophy.


74. WHISKEY

Any beverage; the name of any brand of whiskey.

Any material of which whiskey is made.

Word denoting taste or flavor.

Any occasion or ceremony commonly associated with the use of alcoholic
beverages.

Word denoting a state of lowered consciousness.

Any physiological or pathological effect of alcohol; also any well
known, indirect effect.


75. CHILD

Word denoting or implying age of a person.

Word pertaining to familial relationships or domestic organization.

Name of any person.

Any part of a person's body.

Any article of a child's apparel.

Any common child's toy or game.

Word pertaining to educational organization.

Any word descriptive of the natural physical or mental make-up of a
child, or of the rate or degree of physical or mental development.

Word pertaining to any custom or ceremony connected with the birth or
rearing of children.

Any term of obstetrics.

Any word clearly related to the word Child used as a proper name.


76. BITTER

Any substance having a bitter, sour, sweet, or salt taste, or a
complex taste quality which may be characterized as strong.

Word denoting a taste or flavor quality.

Any organ of taste.

Any word in connection with which the word bitter may be used in the
sense of poignant.


77. HAMMER

Any tool or weapon.

Any trade involving the use of a hammer.


78. THIRSTY

Any beverage.

Any animal.

Word denoting taste or taste quality.

Any part of the upper end of the digestive tract.

Any drinking place; any container of a beverage.

Any fruit; any dessert.

Any food ingredient commonly known to excite thirst.


79. CITY

Name of any division of political geography.

Any architectural structure.

Any part of a city.

Word pertaining to the political organization of a city.


80. SQUARE

The name of any city.

The name of any square in a city or town.

Any geometrical figure or part of one.

Any object that is always or often square in shape.

Any device used in the arts for measuring angles, arcs, or distances
between points.

Any part of a carpenter's or draughtsman's square.

Any trade involving the use of the square.


81. BUTTER

Any article of food; any meal.

Any article of table linen, china, or silver; any cooking utensil.

Any process of cooking.


82. DOCTOR

The name of any physician.

Any medical speciality or practice.

Any medical or surgical procedure.

Any therapeutic remedy or method.

Any organization for the treatment of disease.

Name of any injury or disease.


83. LOUD

Any sound or sound quality.

Any part of the human vocal apparatus.

Any act of vocalization.

Any musical instrument.

Any apparatus for making sound signals.

Word denoting renown or commendation.


84. THIEF

Word denoting crime or wrongdoing.

Word denoting any circumstance propitious for theft.

Any common measure for the prevention or punishment of crime.

Any judicial, police, or penal authority.

Any readily portable article of value.

Word denoting renown.


85. LION

Word denoting or implying fear.

Any animal.


86. JOY

Word denoting a state, quality, faculty, or function of the mind.

Any common manifestation of emotion.

Any occasion, act, or means of recreation or of pleasurable excitement.


87. BED

Any article of bedding, bed linen, or night-clothes.

Any article of furniture.

Any living room, apartment, or building.

Any part of a room.

Any division of the diurnal cycle.

Any material of which beds are made.

Word pertaining to sleep or rest.


88. HEAVY

Word denoting or implying weight or lightness.

Any object or substance which characteristically possesses the quality
of either great weight or marked lightness.

Any means of support or suspension.

Any fabric; any article of clothing or bedding.

Word denoting something to be carried or transferred.

Any painful emotion.

Word denoting a state of lowered consciousness.


89. TOBACCO

The name of any brand or variety of tobacco.

Term denoting any common quality of tobacco.

Any physiological or pathological effect of tobacco.

Any word which expresses subjective characterization of tobacco.


90. BABY

Word denoting or implying age or size of a person.

Word pertaining to familial relationships or domestic organization.

Name of any person.

Any part of a person's body.

Any article of a child's apparel.

Any common child's toy or game.

Word pertaining to any custom or ceremony connected with the birth or
rearing of children.

Any term of obstetrics.


91. MOON

Any term of astronomy.

Word denoting or implying illumination or obscuration of light.

Any division of the diurnal cycle.


92. SCISSORS

Any operation or handicraft involving the use of scissors.

Any fabric; any article of clothing.

Any metal of which scissors are made.

Any tool for cutting, piercing, or sharpening.

Any operation of cutting, piercing, or sharpening.


93. QUIET

Any place where silence usually prevails or is enforced.

Word denoting or implying a state of lowered psychical activity or of
psychical inhibition.

Word denoting heightened psychical activity.

Any word pertaining to the emotions.


94. GREEN

Word which may be used to express subjective characterization of the
green color.

Any object or substance which is always or often green in color.

Anything which is by convention or common usage connected with the
green color.

Any color or coloring material.

Any plant, collection of plants, or part of a plant.

Any word clearly related to the word Green used as a proper name.


95. SALT

Any article of food that is usually seasoned with salt; any seasoning; any relish.

Any article of table linen, china, or silver.

Any process of cooking.

Any term of chemistry.


96. STREET

Name of any street or city.

Any part of a street.

Any building.

Any manner or means of locomotion commonly employed in traveling
through streets.


97. KING

Any name of the Deity.

The proper or common name of any ruler of a nation or of a smaller
municipality.

Any nation or country.

Any title of nobility.

Any word clearly related to the word King used as a proper name.


98. CHEESE

Any article of food; any meal.

Word denoting any variety of cheese.

Word pertaining to taste, flavor, or odor.

Word pertaining to appetite.

Any article of table linen, china, or silver.


99. BLOSSOM

Any plant, collection of plants, or part of a plant.

Any term of botany.

Any division of the annual cycle.


100. AFRAID

Any affective state; any common demonstration of emotion.

Any common object of fear.

Word denoting or implying danger, courage; any means of defense or
protection against danger.







 


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