The Development of Ideational Fluency: Some Normative Data.

Summary. 199 schoolchildren in five groups at 1-year intervals between the ages of 7 and 12 completed a verbal and a figural divergent test along with the Draw-a-Man test in a preliminary normative investigation of age trends in ideational fluency. The broadly consistent increases with age found on the verbal divergent and Draw-a-Man tests were not present on the figural divergent test, and there were no consistent effects of sex on these results. Further normative data are needed to clarify the relationship between age and ideational fluency before studies can be meaningfully compared.