Intellectual performance as related to emotional instability in children.

Abstract

See (10) for fuller description of basis for making judgments on the quality of each design.4 Samples of the original designs are given in the Cornell-Coxe manual (5).

Conceptual sorting and personality adjustment in children.

“…A number of studies indicate that there is some relation between personality maladjustment and cognitive deficit. Granick (1955) demonstrated that children with relatively mild personality disturbances were inferior in visual motor performances to children with more healthy personalities although similar on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. Psychotic children, when compared with normal children (Schulman, 1953), gave more inadequate responses on the Gelb-Goldstein-Weigl-Scheerer Object Sorting Test.…”

“…The California Test of Personality was selected because this test provides an objective measure of adjustment, is designed for children between the ages of about 10-15 years, and has adequate reported reliabilities in the .90s (California Test Bureau, 1949). In addition, this test has been previously used in selecting children of different personality adjustment levels (Granick, 1955;Taylor & Combs, 1952).…”

Intelligence and Childhood Psychiatric Disorder

“…Yet Hewitt & Jenkins (1946) found an association between over-inhibited behaviour and low I.Q., and unsocialized behaviour and high I.Q. Different cognitive functions have rarely been considered, but in one study emotionally disturbed children did particularly poorly on visual-motor tests (Granick, 1955). Academic achievement is often low even when the level of intelligence is normal (Salzinger, 1957).…”

Intelligence testing and clinical practice.

“…The factors which have been related to differences between verbal and performance I.Q. 's include such diverse ones as language disability, educational limitations, mixed cerebral dominance, concrete or abstract approaches to tasks, temporary emotional upset, delinquency, neurotic trends, gross behavior disorder, and organic deterioration (3,9,34,55,84). This large array of variables is discouraging in that it provides no simple explanation for the discrepancy between verbal and performance scores in a particular case.…”