Free associative experiment as a scientific method used to study changes in the semantic field of the word ‘migrant’

Abstract

The influence of a changeable social environment on students of three different age groups is examined in the present study. The purpose of this research is to form a semantic field of the word ‘migrant’ using the results of the free associative experiment ran in 2013 and 2017. The main goal of this research is to trace major changes and draw conclusions on their pattern and triggers. In this experiment subjects get one task which is to write their association to the word ‘migrant’. The results of the experiment lead to the following conclusion: no matter how much attention is being paid to the moral education at school, as teenagers grow up their sense of intolerance develops, general anxiety and stress level rises.