VOCABULARY SIZE AS A VERBAL INTELLIGENCE INDEX: APPLICATION OF THE EXPRESS METHODS OF AN ESTIMATING VOCABULARY SIZE

Abstract

The article deals with researches about relationship between verbal intelligence and vocabulary size. We supposed that vocabulary size interrelate with development level of the verbal intelligence. According to foreign publications, results of vocabulary size test positively correlate with results of verbal scales in intelligence test (WAIS), it is reason to use vocabulary size test for verbal intelligence measurement. At the same time there are absent data about interrelations between verbal intelligence and vocabulary size, which were received on representative Russian sample. The research aimed at revealing the relationships between rates of vocabulary size test and verbal scales of intelligence test. In the research it was used short version of test of vocabulary size «My Vocab» and the Universal Intelligence Test. The results of rank correlation analysis showed positive correlation between vocabulary size and verbal scales (data
value rs from 0,391 to 0,527 for simple evaluation of vocabulary size; rs from 0,391 to 0,527 for complex evaluation of vocabulary size). The findings are meant to be argument for using vocabulary size test as screening technique for studying verbal intelligence.