Study Botwinick & Storandt (1974): study US St. Louis County, Missouri 1969
- Public
- 20-80 aged, general public, metropolitan St. Louis area, USA, 197?
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 120
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
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- Vocabulary
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- Remarks
- Wechsler, D.: Manual for the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, New York, 1995.
- Operationalization
- Is a WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) subtest and comprises a list of 40 words in general order of difficulty. With each word orally presented the subject attemps a good definition. Scores are: 2 is good, 1 is poor, 0 is incorrect or failure. After 5 consecutive zero scores the test is terminated. The total score is converted to a scaled score.