Social:Thurstone Word Fluency Test
| Thurstone Word Fluency Test | |
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| Synonyms | Chicago Word Fluency Test |
| Purpose | measure an individual's symbolic verbal fluency |
The Thurstone Word Fluency Test, also known as the Chicago Word Fluency Test (CWFT),[1] was developed by Louis Thurstone in 1938.[2] This test became the first word fluency psychometrically measured test available to patients with brain damage.[3] The test is a used to measure an individual's symbolic verbal fluency.[4][5][6] The test asks the subject to write as many words as possible beginning with the letter 'S' within a 5-minute limit, then as many words as possible beginning with letter 'C' within 4 minute limit. The total number of 'S' and 'C' words produced, minus the number of rule-breaking and perseverative responses, yield the patients' measure of verbal fluency.
The CWFT is used as one of the measures of brain's frontal lobe function. A related test, the COWAT (Controlled oral word association test), is part of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery.
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- ↑ Kolb, Bryan, and Ian Q. Whishaw (2008). Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology. New York: Worth. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-7167-9586-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=z0DThNQqdL4C&q=%22+Thurstone+Word+Fluency+Test%22&pg=PA443.
- ↑ Thurstone, LL and Thurstone, TG (1938). "Primary Mental Abilities". Science (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press) 108 (2813): 585. OCLC 741860993. PMID 18933605.
- ↑ Spreen, O., & Risser, A. (2003). Assessment of aphasia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198032250. https://books.google.com/books?id=k4zgc5ZiYzsC&q=thurstone+word+fluency&pg=PA89.
- ↑ Pendleton, Mark G. (Dec 1982). "Diagnostic utility of the thurstone word fluency test in neuropsychological evaluations". Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology 4 (4): 307–317. doi:10.1080/01688638208401139. PMID 7174838.
- ↑ Leslie A. Burton, Debra Henninger & Jessica Hafetz (2005). "Gender Differences in Relations of Mental Rotation, Verbal Fluency, and SAT Scores to Finger Length Ratios as Hormonal Indexes". Developmental Neuropsychology 28 (1): 493–505. doi:10.1207/s15326942dn2801_3. PMID 15992253.
- ↑ S. L. Morrison-Stewart (1992). "Frontal and non-frontal lobe neuropsychological test performance and clinical symptomatology in schizophrenia". Psychological Medicine 22 (2): 353–359. doi:10.1017/S0033291700030294. PMID 1615102.
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