The maze test and mental differences.

Correlates of Social and Academic Competence in Middle Childhood

“…Cognitive reflectivity. Two different tasks were employed to measure cognitive reflectivity: the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT; Kagan et al, 1964), as modified by Weintraub (1968), and the Porteus (1933) Maze Test (Ferrarese, 1981), The modified MFFT presents 24 sets of eight very similar but not identical pictures of familiar objects projected on a screen. Subjects are required to identify the one picture that matches a standard stimulus presented simultaneously on the screen.…”

“…Inadequate reflectiveness, as indexed by performance on such measures as the Porteus (1933) Maze Test and the Matching Familiar Figures Test (Kagan, Rosman, Day, Albert & Phelps, 1964), has been linked to academic learning difficulties (e.g. Egeland, 1974) and problem-solving anxiety and self-doubt (Block, Block & Harrington, 1974), as well as to aggression and delinquency (e.g.…”

A Psychometric Study of 150 Adult Delinquents

“…This is not surprising, since by the inclusion of the adult mazes a two-year higher rating is made possible with no corresponding penalty for failure. We have been unable to discover any discussion of the problem of the inclusion of the adult mazes other than that in Porteus (25,186) which refers to the single adult test in the new maze series. Our mazes were rescored using the criteria suggested in this reference.…”

Reflective training and causal attributions in impulsive mildly retarded children

“…The Porteus Mazes (Porteus, 1933) were used to measure possible task generalization. While the Mazes have been questioned as an index of impulsivity (O'Keefe, 1975) the qualitative (Q) scores may nevertheless be considered as a measure of failure to following instructions and of mistakes in task execution (Bugental, Whalen, & Henker, 1977).…”