Abstract
This study investigated the construct validity of a Spanish version of the Multidimensional Stimulus Fluency Measure (MSFM). Children were tested individually by one examiner using the MSFM; a measure previously used in the USA and Israel. Results indicated that all individual items were somewhat correlated to total score, but the uses task proved to yield unscorable responses. For remaining tasks there is a significant order effect, that is, the number of original responses increased in the course of the sequential responding. There is also a strong correlation between quality and quantity. Paraguayan children gave three to five times as many popular responses as children in comparable studies in the USA and Israel, although the number of original responses were similar. Thus, it is popular responses that seemed to be most affected by cultural or contextual variables.
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