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involve why some words seem to generate more ideas than others. You also could
observe that people who initially have trouble with free association often begin to loosen
up and increase their ability to think of ideas over time. Observing others use the words
also can facilitate learning how to free-associate from random words.
Also consider having participants debrief using the following questions:- What was most helpful about this exercise?
- What was most challenging?
- What can we apply?
- How would you rate the value of this exercise to helping us with this issue?
- Will this exercise be helpful in the future for other sessions?
- What did you learn?
- What will we be able to use from this exercise?
- What ideas were generated, and which ones were most interesting?
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