Compared sentence completion responses across 130 adults, aged 18-56 yrs old, for 198 highly constrained sentence contexts designed to elicit the best completion in the vast majority of Subjects. For each context, completions and their respective frequency of occurrence are provided. Subjects of all ages produced highly similar terminal words. Results indicate that greater SES and higher levels of education were mildly associated with a greater probability of producing a best completion response. Although increasing age correlated with greater probability of producing a best completion, this very weak association would not preclude use of these stimuli with a wide age range. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)
subjects are asked to provide a word that has been omitted from text, which, in the present case, is the final word of the sentence. When a considerable portion of subjects (e.g., 85%) provide an identical response, the sentence is considered 'highly constrained.'