Children aged 6 to 13 yr. were given verbal and non-verbal fluency tasks as well as the Vocabulary and Block Design subtests of the WISC-R. The results, providing normative data, showed that the fluency tasks are age-, but not sex-dependent, and are only modestly correlated to one another and to standard measures of intelligence.
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