Associative Experiment as an Effective Method of Studying Students’ Linguistic Consciousness

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the methodology of conducting associative experiments, which is used in their psycholinguistic research by scientists of Moscow International University, Voronezh State University and the “Laboratory of Cognitive Research of Consciousness named after Said Makhdikhon Sattorov”. This technique makes it possible to identify more or less frequent associations that are actually represented in the consciousness of native speakers (language consciousness), as well as to fix the associative norms of the national language within the framework of the corresponding (associative) dictionaries. The article presents the results of linguistic associative experiments conducted in Derbent in lecture halls of local universities. A list of 10 stimuli was used as a stimulus material. Based on the results of the experiments, associative fields of stimuli were constructed, which made it possible to identify the state of language consciousness of Derbent students.