Bulletin of the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases Volume 1, Nos. 3-4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...the directions for its use, and to present certain general results from approximately 250 examinations. It should be stated with emphasis that the point scale herein described is merely a provisional group of tests which we have no thought of standardizing, but which we propose to revise Reprinted from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. CLXXVI, No. 16, pp. 564-573, April 19, 1917. thoroughly on the basis of the results obtained by various examiners before we enter upon the task of securing norms for the individual tests and for a revised form of the scale. The record blank which we have employed is reproduced below, one-half size. It consists of four pages, the tests on which are so arranged that all of those involving writing or drawing by the subject appear on page 4. Most of the tests of the group are in principle old, although much new material has been introduced, and in a few instances the tests have been so modified as to be markedly different from their earlier forms. For test 1 there are used, instead of the Binet pictures, three Perry pictures (Boston Edition, penny size): --(a) Picture No. 893, entitled "Saved." (b) Picture No. 1076, entitled "The Music Lesson." (c) Picture No. 2785, entitled "The Child Handel." For test 2 the same set of weighted cubes is employed as in the original point scale. The Healy butcher shop picture is used for test 4, in accordance with the directions given below. Test 12 is a new test based upon the Yerkes multiple choice method of measuring ideational efficiency.i The five cards which are used as materials for this test appear in Fig. 1 reduced one-half. In our set of materials the standard card for this test measures 6 by 8 inches. G O O O O O o a a...