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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 24.
Published in final edited form as: Creat Res J. 2014 Feb 26;26(1):21–29. doi: 10.1080/10400419.2014.873657

TABLE 2.

Group Means and Standard Deviations (SD) for Divergent and Convergent Tasks

Measure Older Adults Younger Adults
Mean SD Mean SD
Alternate uses
 Mean uniqueness     .40*     .10     .34     .10
 Total fluency 26.43 11.36 26.97 12.29
Associative fluency
 Mean uniqueness     .48**     .10     .40     .13
 Total fluency 63.43 37.66 83.90 74.78

Note.

*

Difference between groups is significant at the 0.05 level in analysis of variance.

**

Difference between groups is significant at the 0.01 level in analysis of variance.