The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s age 46-47 sweep using the Verbal Fluency (Animal Naming) Test.
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
| Year of data collection: | 2012 |
| Domain: | Verbal fluency |
| Measures: | Verbal/semantic fluency |
| Executive function | |
| CHC: | Glr (Long-Term Storage and Retrieval) |
| CLOSER Source: | Explore this sweep in CLOSER Discovery: BCS70 Age 46 Survey (2017) (opens in a new tab) |
| Administration method: | Trained interviewer; computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) |
| Procedure: | Participants were asked to name as many different animals as possible within a one-minute timeframe. The interviewer made a note of each named animal and entered the total number into the CAPI programme. Repetitions, named animals (e.g. Bambi), and redundancies (e.g. white cat, black cat) were not included in the total score. |
| Link to questionnaire: | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BCS70_collated-CAPI-specs_FINAL.pdf (opens in new tab) |
| Scoring: | Total number of animals named |
| Item-level variable(s): | None |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | B10CFANI |
| Descriptives: | Raw score |
| N = 8,498 | |
| Range = 1 - 70 | |
| Mean = 23.63 | |
| SD = 6.19 | |
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| Age of participants (months): | Mean = 563.26, SD = 8.26, Range = 542 - 578 |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | NCDS – Age 50 – Verbal Fluency (Animal Naming) Test |
| NCDS – Age 62 – Proposed repeat of tests at age 50 | |
| NSHD – Age 53 – Verbal Fluency (Animal Naming) Test | |
| ALSPAC – Focus on Mothers 2 – Verbal Fluency Test | |
| ALSPAC – Focus on Mothers 3 – Verbal Fluency Test | |
| ALSPAC – Focus on Mothers 4 – Verbal Fluency Test | |
| Source: | Taken from Section B (cognitive assessment) of the Cambridge Mental Disorders of the Elderly Examination (CAMDEX) (Roth et al., 1986). Cognitive measures at this sweep were taken from the 2002 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA; Taylor et al., 2007). |
| Technical resources: | Banks, J., Breeze, E., Lessof, C., & Nazroo, J. (2006). Retirement, health and relationships of the older population in England: The 2004 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Wave 2). (Link opens in a new tab) |
| Example articles: | Not available at time of writing |
Go to:
- Overview of all cognitive measure in BCS70
- Overview of adulthood cognitive measures across all studies
This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.