Vocabulary Test Format and Differential Relations to Age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 366-376

  Bowles, Ryan P ^a   Salthouse, Timothy A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; measurement; vocabulary knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEARNING TEST; LINGUISTICS; RATING SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 46849104276     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.23.2.366     Document Type: Article

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