"Say the first word that comes to mind when I say . . . doctor." This is an example of which type of task?

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The task described is word association, in which the participant is asked to produce the first word that comes to mind in response to a given stimulus (in this case, "doctor"). Tachistoscopic decision involves the rapid identification of briefly presented visual stimuli, lexical decision involves determining whether a given string of letters corresponds to a real word, conservative identification involves making a decision based on minimal information, and limbus tracking is not a recognized psychological task.

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