A comparison of the Stanford and Porteus tests in several types of social inadequacy.

Cornell, Ethel L.; Lowden, Gladys

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“…Cornell and Lowden (36) compared results obtained with the Stanford-Binet scale and the Porteus maze-tests from 50 cases each of dementia praecox, constitutional psychopathic inferiority, and feeblemindedness, and from 24 normal persons. The 2 tests correlated poorly for all abnormal subjects, suggesting to these writers that something other than mental age was operative.…”

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Psychological experiments with disordered persons.

Hunt¹

1936

Psychological Bulletin

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In a recent examination of the status of the psychology of the abnormal, W. A. Hunt and C. Landis have pointed out that one of the glaring deficiencies in the textbooks of this subject and of psychiatry is the omission of the available experimental results. 1 In view of the possibility that this omission may be partially due to the fact that these results have never been collected and made available in one place, we have undertaken this review. 2 While there is no logical excuse to divide the experimental work in this field on lines of language, the volume of the material and the fact that only the English titles have been examined in any degree of comprehensiveness by the writer at the present has led to this kind of presentation. Thus, although incomplete, this review is a beginning of a collection of the available experimental knowledge of psychotic patients, and the

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Section: A General Intellectual Efficiency and Capacity (Psychometric...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological experiments with disordered persons.

Hunt¹

1936

Psychological Bulletin

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“…Porteus (37) has never placed much stress on the adult mazes. There is some evidence that there is a ceiling effect which makes the test unsuitable for use with adults of more than average intelligence (16). It has not been used by any means as much with adults as with children, except that its usefulness with mental defectives and criminals has been explored.…”

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Performance Tests of Intelligence.

Watson¹

The Clinical Method in Psychology.

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The major function of performance tests is to afford standardized settings for observation of the behavior of an individual in situations other than the type provided by verbal tests. This is not to say that verbal sampling is unimportant-the attention given it in earlier chapters attests the contrary.In a sense the term "performance tests" is a misnomer. Every test reaction, verbal or otherwise, is a performance. But since such tests originated in manipulative material, particularly form boards, it is easy to see how the term came to be applied. In the most narrow sense, performance tests are those which can be administered without any speech or the use of written words on the part of either the examiner or the subject. There are several well-standardized scales that conform to this requirement and are consequently useful in testing cases of speech defect, deafness, foreign language handicap, specific reading disability, lack of schooling, and extreme shyness.Most so-called performance tests, however, involve verbal instructions, but as Carter and Bowles say: ". . . Performance tasks differ from certain Binet-type items in that the former involve 'concrete' language situations in which the individual is in direct contact with the object to which reference is made. Such tasks tend to be less dependent upon language (oral or gestural) than the 'remote' language situation, which characterizes many Binet items in which the

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The validity of the Porteus maze test.

Brill¹

1937

Journal of Educational Psychology

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Investigators who were previously engaged in the study of intelligence, have turned their attention in the past several years to the study of personality and adjustment. It has been recognized by these investigators that no one concept, however important, suffices to interpret all clinical cases. Even such fundamental concepts as general intelligence and mental level are by no means sufficient for the diagnosis of all types of maladjustment. There are many individuals who function on an average mental level, or who, in a manner of speaking, are even bright, but still fail to meet the ordinary requirements placed upon them by the social group. A diagnostic classification, namely, mental age, mental level, or intelligence quotient, does not in itself interpret or solve a person's failure to adjust. Lowrey 1 reports that child guidance clinics have found mental deficiency to be a lesser factor in the production of difficult behavior than was anticipated by psychiatrists.Although social behavior cannot be sharply divided into two distinct types, namely, good and bad, individuals can be ranked from best to worst insofar as their social adjustment is concerned. The classroom teacher can thus rank his pupils and point out those who do not, for some reason, get along socially. He may also observe that certain pupils, though maladjusted at the moment, respond to training and become better adjusted with maturity. There are also those children who do not respond to training and remain quite hopeless insofar as social adjustment is concerned. Some of these, and other children, are brought to the guidance clinic. Upon studying them, the clinician finds himself in need of some working concepts other than general intelligence and mental level by means of which he could better interpret the dynamic behavior of the maladjusted individual who functions 481

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A comparison of the Stanford and Porteus tests in several types of social inadequacy.

Cited by 8 publications

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Psychological experiments with disordered persons.

Psychological experiments with disordered persons.

Performance Tests of Intelligence.

The validity of the Porteus maze test.

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