History Main / WordAssociationTest

* In ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' #9, Bruce Wayne visits a psychiatrist who tries this on him. Bruce has to lie all [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QR4Z-inGL6M/URvSR94k8KI/AAAAAAABnVU/fDqMIZ3VuZw/s1600/tumblr_mfrxfmcHq21reqb72o1_500.jpg the]] [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CicTHqAOOFo/URvSVfMQXSI/AAAAAAABnVc/siIn5MMkkRc/s1600/tumblr_mfrxfmcHq21reqb72o2_1280.jpg way]] [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pbJYFDTSz_E/URvSX6xH4tI/AAAAAAABnVk/4ZlGbz08BBI/s1600/tumblr_mfrxfmcHq21reqb72o3_1280.jpg through]] [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kZ9kCWUyb8k/URvSmuTvSJI/AAAAAAABnVs/L9Q02k3oWyk/s1600/tumblr_mfrxfmcHq21reqb72o4_1280.jpg the session.]]

-->'''Jerry:''' That'd be great. There's no wrong answer.
-->'''George:''' Potato.
-->'''Jerry:''' Tuberculosis.
-->'''George:''' Blanket.
-->'''Jerry:''' Leroy.
-->'''George:''' Grass.
-->'''Jerry:''' Tuberculosis.

-->'''Woman:''' Hope.
-->'''Six:''' Anchor.
-->'''Woman:''' Anchor?
-->'''Six:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Hope and Anchor: pub I used to drink at.]]

--> '''Pangborn:''' Hot.
--> '''Dil:''' Hot.
--> '''Pangborn:''' Cold!
--> '''Dil:''' Cold!
--> '''Pangborn:''' STOP IT!
--> '''Dil:''' STOP IT!
--> '''Pangborn:''' You're supposed to give me a new word! Not the same one I gave you!
--> '''Dil:''' You said to say the first word that comes to mind. When you say "hot", I think "very hot".
--> ''(Pangborn starts headdesking)''

--> '''Galvatron''': Kill! Smash! Destroy!
--> '''Therapist''': Go on.
--> '''Galvatron''': Rend! Mangle! ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Distort!]]''

--> '''Dr. Bliss:''' Love.
--> '''Helga:''' Hate.
--> '''Dr. Bliss:''' Pocket.
--> '''Helga:''' Locket...Crocket...Davy Crocket!
--> '''Dr. Bliss:''' Football.
--> '''Helga:''' Head...Did I say "Head"? I meant "Game", Football Game.
--> '''Dr. Bliss:''' Monday.
--> '''Helga:''' Night Football. ''(falls out of chair)''

'''Bond:''' [[HeartbrokenBadass Target]].\\

* In ''[[Literature/AlexRider Scorpia Rising]]'', [[spoiler:Julius Grief]] recieves such a test from his prison psychiatrist. It mostly serves to establish his [[AxCrazy lust for violence]] ("Dog."-->"Bone." "Kitchen."-->"Knife."), though at one point [[FreudianSlip he slips up]]; the doctor says "Letter" and he answers "Bed", almost revealing that he recently received a secret message left under his pillow.

* In the first episode of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxSaveTheWorld'', Sybil psychoanalyses Sam and you have to get him diagnosed with the fictional Artificial Personality Dissorder. One of the method she uses is free association and you can do whathever "you feel like" (Mainly, clicking things or, when you click on her, answer a word). It's doesn't have a set of other choices and failing to get the actual one you seek will take Sybil to comment you have something but she won't tell you. Well, THAT, and the following conversation:

'''Max:''' Yeah, I always thought of you as an ''specifically'' violent person.

* Doc Samson does this to ComicBook/MultipleMan when interviewing him in ''ComicBook/XFactor''. The latter claims he himself isn't sure if the answers were genuine or if he made them up.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanAdventures'' #9: Bruce Wayne visits a psychiatrist who tries this on him. Bruce has to lie all [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QR4Z-inGL6M/URvSR94k8KI/AAAAAAABnVU/fDqMIZ3VuZw/s1600/tumblr_mfrxfmcHq21reqb72o1_500.jpg the]] [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CicTHqAOOFo/URvSVfMQXSI/AAAAAAABnVc/siIn5MMkkRc/s1600/tumblr_mfrxfmcHq21reqb72o2_1280.jpg way]] [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pbJYFDTSz_E/URvSX6xH4tI/AAAAAAABnVk/4ZlGbz08BBI/s1600/tumblr_mfrxfmcHq21reqb72o3_1280.jpg through]] [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kZ9kCWUyb8k/URvSmuTvSJI/AAAAAAABnVs/L9Q02k3oWyk/s1600/tumblr_mfrxfmcHq21reqb72o4_1280.jpg the session.]]

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21214895 Old Associations]]'', Diggle convinces Oliver and Felicity to go to couples counseling. The therapist gives Oliver this test, and the plot is caused when she asks "Home" and he replies "Laurel". Felicity is, somewhat understandably, upset that he thinks of his ex-girlfriend as home. Laurel's presence on his mind is foreshadowed slightly beforehand, as when the therapist says "Bar" he replies "Exam" (visibly surprising her), and when he starts recalling old memories from before he met Felicity that involve his relationship with Laurel.

'''ALF:''' Dr. Warner.\\
'''Dr. Stanley:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' In.\\

'''ALF:''' Dr. Warner.

* In ''Film/ADangerousMethod'', performed by Jung with Emma as a subject and Sabina as an assistant and an interpreter.
* ''Film/TheDarkMirror'': One of the tests that psychologist Dr. Elliot runs on twins Terry and Ruth Collins to find out which is the EvilTwin murderer. It's a dramatic moment when each associate "mirror" with "death".
* Elvis Presley starred in a movie called ''Film/FollowThatDream'' that illustrated why word association is not a reliable psychological tool. The psychiatrist was instructed by a judge to submit a written form of the test and unbeknownst to her was given the judge's answers instead of the defendant's. She still psychoanalyzed the answers as revealing a criminal mindset.

* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': Played for drama: [[spoiler:In "[[DealWithTheDevil The Devil]]" ending, the player character V undergoes one of these after a difficult neurological surgery that cut out parts of their brain that have merged with Johnny Silverhand's and replaced with synthetic neurons. V can show regret over their decision to undergo the surgery and miss Johnny and their home during the test. It's also repeated multiple times during the ending sequence to highlight how trapped, hopeless and angry V is.])

* In the ''Series/MannAndMachine'' episode "The Dating Game," Eve takes one while signing up for a dating service. Her answers are so eccentric ("Naughty"-->"Pine," "Pulsating"-->"Sphygmanometer," "Sperm"-->"Literature/MobyDick") that the service can't find a single match.

* Elvis Presley starred in a movie called ''Follow That Dream'' that illustrated why word association is not a reliable psychological tool. The psychiatrist was instructed by a judge to submit a written form of the test and unbeknownst to her was given the judge's answers instead of the defendant's. She still psychoanalyzed the answers as revealing a criminal mindset.

'''Bruce:''' ''[thinks of fighting crime]'' [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob That's the thing that Alfred does, right?]]\\