“…When the studies carried out by using word association tests were reviewed, it was seen that almost all of those studies had been realized in the field of science education (Atabek-Yiğit, 2015;Atabek-Yiğit, 2016;Bahar et al, 1999;Bahar & Özatlı, 2003;Cardellini & Bahar, 2000;Çınar, 2016;Güneş & Gözüm, 2013;Kırtak & Demirci, 2012;Kostova & Radoynovska, 2010;Köseoğlu & Bayır, 2011;Kurt, 2013;Kurt & Ekici 2013;Kurt, Ekici, Aktaş, & Aksu, 2013a;Kurt, Ekici, Aktaş, & Aksu, 2013b;Nakiboğlu, 2008;Özatlı & Bahar, 2010;Özata-Yücel and Özkan, 2014;Özata-Yücel & Özkan, 2015;Polat, 2013;Schizas, Katrana, & Stamou, 2013). There are not many WAT studies which have been carried out in social sciences (Akman & Koçoğlu, 2016, Aydemir, 2014Aykaç, Bilgin, & Bacakoğlu, 2016;Bahar & Hansel, 2000;Deveci, Çengelci-Köse, & Gürdoğan-Bayır, 2014;Ersanlı, 2016;Karatekin, Topçu, & Aydınlı, 2016;Karatekin & Elvan, 2016;Kaya & Aladağ 2016;Işıklı, Taşdere, & Göz, 2011;Şimşek, 2013;Tokcan & Yiter, 2017;Tokcan & Topkaya, 2018) and in the field of information technologies (Eren, Şahin, Çelik, & Aktürk, 2014;Önal, 2017).…”