Chain Associations of Preschool Children to Picture Stimuli

The syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift revisited: A review of research and theory.

“…A common response to the problems children have in operating on a purely verbal level is to use pictures rather than words to represent concrete objects, and one of the few published studies of word association with preschoolers (Albright & Albright, 1951) used pictures rather than words as stimuli. However, as Blank (1974) has emphasized, young children will rely on visual-spatial information whenever it is available, rather than on language, and the task of associating to pictures is probably a very different matter than is associating to words, even for older subjects, as Bugelski's (1970) data imply.…”