The assessment of brain damage from a psychometric point of view

Schepers, Johan M.

doi:10.1016/0300-9432(72)90027-1

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“…The issue of organicity has led to much misguided effort. Although clinical tests of learning and memory may be useful in studying the effects of organic impairment (Schepers, 1972), it does not follow that they are the most sensitive or efficient detectors for organicity. We know little enough about many elementary brain-behavior relationships at the present time: Our neuropsychological understanding of memory functioning is little more than speculative.…”

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“…We do not intend to review the issues that must be addressed before one could say that such tests have shown adequate reliability and validity. Such information is available in the American Psychological Association's Standards for Educational & Psychological Tests (1974) and is succinctly summarized in Schepers (1972). We have several comments to make, however.…”

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“…Although we cannot avoid discussions of organicity, it should be kept in mind that our concern is with each test as a test of memory, not as a test of organicity. For a helpful discussion of the place of memory testing in the assessment of organicity, the reader is referred to Schepers (1972). Third, though considerable research has been performed that attempts to understand the specific nature of memory deficits among aged and braininjured persons, our intent is not to explicate the findings in this area.…”

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Clinical memory testing: A review.

Erickson¹,

Scott²

1977

Psychological Bulletin

199

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Although a great deal of attention has been given to the study of learning and memory, relatively little has been paid to the problem of preparing tests for assessing memory functioning in clinical settings. Available memory batteries and tests for verbal and nonverbal learning and memory are reviewed. Critical issues are summarized, and implications for memory testing in clinical settings and for preparing future test batteries are listed.

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Clinical memory testing: A review.

Erickson¹,

Scott²

1977

Psychological Bulletin

199

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“…There has been widespread faith in the diagnostic value of the Verbal-Performance split in IQ scores (Kleinknecht & Goldstein, 1972) and the intactness of Verbal and Vocabulary scores (McLaughlin et al 1979). Only one study has found lower Vocabulary scores in alcoholics than in matched controls (Schepers, 1972).…”

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Vocabulary deficit and abstraction impairment in hospitalized alcoholics

Draper

Manning

1982

Psychol. Med.

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SynopsisThe use of a standard intelligence test for detecting cognitive impairment has been re-examined in a cohort of 506 hospitalized alcoholics. The value of Vocabulary scores as indicators of original intelligence was tested by formulating the hypothesis that Vocabulary scores would remain constant despite increasing degrees of alcohol-induced cerebral dysfunction. Subjects were assigned to non-dysfunctional, minimal, moderate and severe dysfunctional groups on the basis of psychometric testing and their Wechsler Vocabulary scores categorized as either ‘abstract’, ‘concrete’ or ‘wrong’. Significant linear deficits in Vocabulary score and loss of abstract ability correlated with increasing dysfunction, irrespective of age but with greater frequency in females.

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“…Evaluering berus op sekere basiese teoretiese veronderstellings of modelle. Dit moet die ouderdom, kultuur en sosioekonomiese status van die populasie in ag neem omdat betroubaarheid en geldigheid nie slegs 'n funksie van die toets self is nie, maar ook van die groep waarop dit toegepas word (Schepers, 1972). Die kwantiteit van inligting wat in verband met behandeling verskaf word en die verskillende aspekte wat ondersoek word, is ook faktore waaraan die effektiwiteit van diagnose gemeet kan word.…”

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Kritiese beoordeling van evaluasietegnieke van toepassing op gesplete-lip-en-verhemelte-babas

Louw

Uys

1986

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Die verkryging van 'n klinies geldige en 'n voorskrywende profiel van 'n baba se kommunikasiefunksionering verg noukeurige seleksie van ondersoekmetodes en meetinstrumente wat aangewend word. Voorgestelde evaluasietegnieke wat van toepassing is op swart gesplete-lip-en-verhemelte-babas word teen die agtergrond van 'n kritiese oorsig van die evaluasieproses beoordeel in terme van navorsings- en kliniese toepassingswaarde. Vyf-en-twintig swart babas met gesplete verhemelte onder die ouderdom van twaalf maande het as proefpersone gedien. Riglyne vir toepassing van die voorgestelde evaluasiemodel deur middel van direkte dienslewering deur die spraakterapeut en deur middel van konsultasie-as-voorkoming in 'n multi-kulturele gemeenskap word verskaf.

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The assessment of brain damage from a psychometric point of view

Cited by 6 publications

References 51 publications

Clinical memory testing: A review.

Clinical memory testing: A review.

Vocabulary deficit and abstraction impairment in hospitalized alcoholics

Kritiese beoordeling van evaluasietegnieke van toepassing op gesplete-lip-en-verhemelte-babas

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