An attempt was made to determine whether the Reltan-Halstead Organic Test Battery separates neuropsychiatric hospital organics from schizophrenics. The battery was administered to 25 schizophrenics and 2$ cerebral-lesion organics at each of 2 chronicity levels. Only 1 of the 24 diagnosis/Diagnosis X Chronicity effects used to evaluate the data was significant at the .05 level, indicating that actuarial application of Reitan-Halstead scores is of no practical value in the separation of the 2 groups. To determine whether expert clinicians might improve upon the actuarial results, protocols of 24 schizophrenics and 24 organics were sent to 8 Reitan-Halstead experts who were instructed to separate them into brain-damaged and schizophrenic diagnostic groups. The mean number of correct classifications, 25.5 out of 48, suggested that clinical judgment added nothing to actuarial prediction in this case.

Spielberger has proposed that trait anxiety scores reflect a predisposition to respond with heightened state anxiety to situations involving the possibility of failure or loss of self-esteem. Thus it was predicted that 5s who indicated that they were high in A-trait would report anticipating greater fears in these situations and not in situations involving physical pain or danger. The Ss rated 40 situations according to the degree of apprehension that they thought they might feel if in that situation. The 40 items were intercorrelated and factor analyzed. Of the four factors obtained, the three factors associated with failure correlated significantly with a measure of trait anxiety, while the fourth factor, involving pain and danger, did not, supporting Spielberger's hypothesis. Sex differences were found only for the pain-danger factor.

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