Sentence-final word completion norms for young, middle-aged, and older adults

Abstract

This report describes sentence-final word completion norms for 119 sentence contexts based on the original sentence completion norms of Bloom and Fischler (1980). Four sets of norms are made available for 358 adults, representing young, middle-aged, young-old, and old-old samples. Notable in these norms is a high degree of consistency in responses among all four age samples. Differences in relation to the original Bloom and Fischler norms appear in responses to low contextually constraining sentences. Results show that the recency with which normative data are collected is an important variable to consider when making use of norms.