The studies included 302 Polish participants. There were used 7 verbal fluency tasks (categories: animals, vehicles, words beginning with the letter F, letter F, words from the category joy, fear, and verbs corresponding to a question: “what man does”?, namely verbs fluency). The aim of the analysis was to identify the factors that determine the ability of finding words in accordance with the criteria. The significant predictors of the numbers of words given in accordance with the requirements were variables such as age, duration of education, the level of language skills/semantic memory and working memory, as well as affective states and traits. Analysis of the different characteristics of the tasks (grammatical, semantic, affective) indicates that their performance is determined by the interaction of similar factors, except for affective factors.
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