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Aging and vocabulary score: A meta-analysis.
Abstract
Vocabulary scores were examined in a total of 210 articles, containing 324 independent pairings of younger and older adults, from the 1986-2001 issues of Psychology and Aging. The average effect size, favoring the old, was 0.80 SD. Production tests yielded smaller effects (0.68 SD) than multiple-choice tests (0.93 SD). Both age and education were found to be partially independent determinants of performance in production tests; age effects disappeared in multiple-choice tests as soon as education was taken into account. In addition, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale--Revised Vocabulary subtest (D. Wechsler, 1981) was also found to be sensitive to the Flynn effect (J. R. Flynn, 1987; i.e., increasing test scores with advancing birth year). The results question the approach of using age-group equality in vocabulary scores as a check on sample equivalence.
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- Authors
- Verhaeghen, P.
- Venue
- Psychology and Aging
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 332-339
- ISSN
- 0882-7974 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1498
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- W2080169155
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- 652
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 3.95
- Type
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- Language
- en
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