Rorschach protocols of both black and white children from 7 to 14 years of age, who had been evaluated at a child guidance clinic, were rescorcd with respect to developmental level of perceptual integration, It was found that black children had higher perceptual-integration scores in comparison to their white counterparts. This finding, however, was accounted for by the higher performance of low-IQ (70-89) black subjects as compared to low-IQ white subjects. No differences were obtained between average-IQ (90-109) black or white children. It is suggested that standard IQ tests may not adequately tap the cognitive capacity of some black children and that use of the Rorschach from a developmental-structural perspective may provide a useful adjunctive measure of intelligence that would more realistically assess children's cognitive competence.This research was undertaken while the second author was a predoctoral and postdoctoral fellow in child-clinical psychology at the Irving Schwartz Institute for Children and Youth.
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