Studied whether any differential effects of anxiety and depression could be discerned in the anagram performance, ratings of cognitive interference, and subjective evaluation of anagram performance displayed by college students. Seventy‐two undergraduates (36 male, 36 female) were selected to participate in the present experiment on the basis of their scores on the State‐Trait Anxiety Inventory (A‐Trait) and/or the Beck Depression Inventory. Results showed that depressed‐anxious and anxious Ss displayed a tendency toward reduced efficiency in anagram solution, rated themselves as having experienced significantly more cognitive interference during the anagram task, and displayed a significantly more negative subjective evaluation of their anagram performance than did control Ss. Quasi‐F analyses revealed that these results were related significantly to the anxiety factor common to both depressed‐anxious and anxious Ss. Implications of these results for future research on anxiety and depression were discussed.

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Changes in mean elevation, dispersion, overall configuration, and code type of well‐defined MMPI profiles were examined after transformation to estimated MMPI‐2 profiles. A total of 34 MMPI profiles from both Gilberstadt and Duker (1965) and Marks, Seeman, and Haller (1974) were analyzed using contemporary MMPI‐2 T‐scores. Results yielded a reduction in mean elevation and both increases and decreases in scatter about the mean upon transformation to MMPI‐2 norms. The total configuration of linear MMPI and estimated MMPI‐2 T‐score profiles correlated highly with each other and manifested a similar pattern of correlation with the total configuration of Skinner and Jackson's (1978) three modal MMPI types.

Subjects of varying levels of neuropsychological impairment who were administered the revised version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-R) were found to obtain significantly lower Full Scale, Verbal, and Performance IQs than a comparable group of subjects who were administered the original version (WAIS). Significant main effects for level of impairment were found for all IQ measures irrespective of the Wechsler scale administered. No significant interactions of Scale X Level of Impairment were found for any IQ measure. The results provide the first empirical support for neuropsychologists' use of a standard expected difference between WAIS and WAIS-R IQ scores as a baseline for assessing changes in intellectual functioning.