Details Pertaining to
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Wais) Vocabulary Subscale
Principal Investigator:Alan Zonderman
Collaborating Investigators:
Dave Arenberg
,
Leonard Giambra
Year First Collected: 1960
Year Last Collected: 1989
Frequency of Collection: At 6 year intervals
Subset Data Files on the VMS Cluster? Files info223.*, Inactive as of 11/97.
For access to these data, please contact Dr. Paul Costa or Dr. Alan Zonderman.
Data Type Notes:
Descriptive History:
Descriptive history is largely in the BLSA book (Shock, et al).
Data Collection Instrument/Method/Medium:
The test was administered and scored using the standard published instructions.
Related Protocols:
WAIS Vocabulary was superceded by the PMA Vocabulary test. PMA Vocabulary
testing began on 11/23/1992. The correlation between WAIS Vocabulary and
PMA Vocabulary was .83 (n = 49, p< .001).
Publications:
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Giambra LM, Arenberg D, Kawas CH, Zonderman AB, Costa PT.
Adult life span changes in immediate visual memory and verbal
intelligence.
Psychology & Aging 1995;10(1):123-139.
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Alder AG, Adam J, Arenberg D.
Individual-differences
assessment of the
relationship between change in and initial level of adult cognitive
functioning.
Psychology & Aging 1990;5(4):560-568.
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Arenberg D.
Differences and changes with age in the
Benton Visual Retention Test.
Journal of Gerontology 1978;33(4):534-540.
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