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In exploring the social-psychological problems of the visibly injured, one sees the constant striving of the injured person to combat what he considers the negative implications of his injury. Among these he counts a variety of attitudes and behaviors which the non-injured direct toward him; e.g., they display unwarranted pity, and treat him as an object of curiosity. In general, the injured feels that as a person he is set apart from people at large. What he demands above all is social acceptance.The gravity of the problem as seen by injured people is epitomized in the statement of one amputee:"You can't write an article about it. It can be said in one sentence-There is no acceptance."Although this is an extreme instance, it reflects in nature, if not in degree, the general problem as seen by the injured man.When he demands social acceptance the injured may ask the non-injured to assess concomitants of the injury in a practical way, and to behave accordingly. Thus, the non-injured are to avoid exaggeration and to eliminate misconceptions regarding the limitations set by the injury.On the basis of interviews3 with 1 2 5 visibly injured persons4 we can

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The present study is concerned with personal patterns in an intellectual performance. By personal patterns we mean individual differences in a given performance which are of a qualitative rather than of a quantitative nature and which might possibly have a relation to certain other personality traits. Since in a unified whole, such as personality, no part is completely isolated and independent from others, it may be assumed that typical personal differences within one sphere, such as the sphere of intellectual performances, reflect significant differences of the personality structures. We may hope, therefore, through a consideration of personal patterns within a limited performance to obtain essential cues for the understanding of much more general personality characteristics.We came across the problem of personal patterns of intellectual performance in the course of an investigation of the thinking of schizophrenic patients which was conducted with the help of a concept formation test (3). A second part dealing with the qualitative analysis will be published shortly. This test was invented by Ach and later modified by Saharov, but is perhaps better known by the name of Vigotsky-Test, after the Russian psychologist by whom it was much used (2). The material of the test consists of twentytwo wooden blocks varying in color, shape, and size. On each block a nonsense word is written. The subject has the task of finding the characteristic that serves as a basis for naming. This basis is provided by the combination of height and size of the top area of the blocks, so that the same nonsense word is written on all large tall blocks, another one on all large flat ones, a third one on all small tall ones, and a fourth on all small flat ones. At the beginning of the test all blocks are spread in front of the subject, in a