Originality in Free and Controlled Association Responses

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Abstract
Three experiments were carried out in an attempt to replicate the training in originality reported by Maltzman and his colleagues. The first experiment showed that Maltzman's two lists of words were not comparable in their elicitation of original responses, and that all Ss showed an increase in originality from a first list to a second list. The second experiment required Ss to produce different responses each time through a training list without specifically asking them to be different. All Ss were more original on a second list than on the first, whether they were trained, worked on arithmetic problems, or worked on a vocabulary test between trials. The third experiment was an exact replication of Maltzman's main design, with the addition of interpolated arithmetic or vocabulary tests. Again, all Ss showed more originality on the second list, regardless of how they spent the time between trials. It is concluded that originality training as defined by Maltzman has not been demonstrated here.

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