Sentence
Completion Norms
Sentence-Final
Word Completion Norms for
Young, Middle-Aged and Older Adults
Cindy
J. Lahar, Patricia A. Tun and Arthur Wingfield
(2004:
Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences)
ABSTRACT
We provide sentence-final word completion norms for 119
sentence contexts based on the original sentence completion norms of
Bloom and Fischler (1980). Four
sets of norms are made available for 358 adults, representing young,
middle-aged, young-old, and old-old samples. Notable in these norms is a high degree of consistency in
responses among all four age samples.
Differences in relation to the original Bloom and Fischler
norms appear in responses to low contextually constraining sentences.
Results show that the recency with which normative data are
collected is an important variable to consider when making use of
norms.
The
full reference is:
Lahar,
C.J. , Wingfield, A., & Tun, P.A.
(2004). Sentence-final word completion norms for young,
middle-aged and older adults. Journals
of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences,
59(1), P7-P10.
- Feel free to contact the authors for a
copy.
The
norms are available below in three formats.
Note that the norms cover a 70 page document - so when loading
the files, they are very large.
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Sentence Completion Norms - PDF
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Sentence Completion Norms - microsoft-word
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Sentence Completion Norms - html
(Note: some format is lost - LARGE file)
Portions
of these data were presented at the 4th
International Conference on Communication, Ageing and Health
in
Queensland,
Australia,
July 1999. A copy of the handout
(includes a variability analysis and a sample from the norms) is
available for download here or by
emailing Cindy Lahar.
If
you have any problems accessing these files, please contact the author at
clahar@yccc.edu
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