Verbal Fluency Measure
A Verbal Fluency Measure is a linguistic agent capability measure of a verbal task by a linguistic agent.
- AKA: Verbal Skill.
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See:: Agent Capability Measure, Psychological Testing.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/verbal_fluency_test Retrieved:2014-7-23.
- Verbal fluency tests are a kind of psychological test in which participants have to say as many words as possible from a category in a given time (usually 60 seconds). This category can be semantic, such as animals or fruits, or phonemic, such as words that begin with letter p.
The semantic fluency test is sometimes described as the category fluency test or simply as 'freelisting'. The COWAT (Controlled oral word association test) is the most employed phonetic variant. Although the most common performance measure is the total number of words, other analyses such as number of repetitions, number and length of clusters of words from the same semantic or phonetic subcategory, or number of switches to other categories can be carried out.
- Verbal fluency tests are a kind of psychological test in which participants have to say as many words as possible from a category in a given time (usually 60 seconds). This category can be semantic, such as animals or fruits, or phonemic, such as words that begin with letter p.
1999
- (Tombaugh et al., 1999) ⇒ Tom N Tombaugh, Jean Kozak, and Laura Rees. (1999). “Normative Data Stratified by Age and Education for Two Measures of Verbal Fluency: FAS and Animal Naming.” In: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 14(2).
- QUOTE: Normative data stratified by three levels of age (16–59, 60–79, and 80–95 years) and three levels of education (0–8, 9–12, and 13–21 years) are presented for phonemic verbal fluency (FAS) and categorical verbal fluency (Animal Naming). The normative sample, aged 16 to 95 years, consisted of 1, 300 cognitively intact individuals who resided in the community. ...
... Phonemic and semantic verbal fluency, as measured by an individual's ability to generate words beginning with a specific letter (e.g., FAS and CFL) and semantic category (e.g., animals), have played a prominent role in neuropsychological research. Verbal fluency has been demonstrated to be sensitive to lesions in the frontal lobe, temporal lobe, and caudate nucleus.
- QUOTE: Normative data stratified by three levels of age (16–59, 60–79, and 80–95 years) and three levels of education (0–8, 9–12, and 13–21 years) are presented for phonemic verbal fluency (FAS) and categorical verbal fluency (Animal Naming). The normative sample, aged 16 to 95 years, consisted of 1, 300 cognitively intact individuals who resided in the community. ...