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Completion responses were collected from younger and older adults for 198 highly constrained sentence contexts that were designed to elicit the same response (i.e., the best completion) in the vast majority of subjects. For each context, completions and their respective frequency of occurrence are provided. Overall, individuals of all ages produced highly similar terminal words. Results of formal analyses indicated that greater socioeconomic status and higher levels of education were mildly associated with a greater probability of producing a best completion response. Although increasing age also correlated with greater probability of producing a best completion, this very weak association would not preclude use of these stimuli with a wide age range.
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Hamberger, M.J., Friedman, D. & Rosen, J. Completion norms collected from younger and older adults for 198 sentence contexts. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 28, 102–108 (1996). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203644
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