Free word associations of low level retardates (I.Q., 48) and higher level (I.Q., 67) retardates were examined for evidence of normal adult word association structures (idiodynamic associative sets). Such structures were found in both groups. The low level group, however, evidenced a factor structure different from that typical of normal adults. From a semantic point of view, associations of the low level group were more "concrete" than those of the higher level group. From a syntactic point of view, the lower level group lagged well behind the higher level group on the so-called "syntactic-paradigmatic" shift.
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