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Pezzuti, Lina; Dawe, James; Borghi, Anna Maria – Educational Gerontology, 2021
The aim of this study is to focus on the verbal stimuli of the Vocabulary subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale -- Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV). To our knowledge, this is the first research to examine whether the abstractness/concreteness and the lexical category of the words in the WAIS-IV vocabulary subtest influence the ability to…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Vocabulary, Aging (Individuals), Age Differences
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Kwong See, Sheree T.; Nicoladis, Elena – Educational Gerontology, 2010
This study examined young children's (M = 38 months) beliefs about the aging of language competence using a modified mutual exclusivity paradigm (cf. Markman, 1990). Children were shown pairs of objects (familiar and unfamiliar) and were asked by a younger and older experimenter to point to the object in the pair to which a novel non-word…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Stereotypes, Young Children, Beliefs