Free word association responses of 200 Ss, 100 lower- and 100 middle-class children, to audiory and visual stimuli were sampled. Middle-class Ss gave more paradigmatic responses than lower-class Ss. Visual presentation method yielded higher mean number of paradigmatic responses for both kindergarten Ss, and lower-class Ss. Auditory presentation yielded higher mean for fifth-grade Ss.
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