A Psychometric Study of Dementia

Brody, M. B.

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“…Magaret (41), however, warned against the incautious use of psychometric test pattern even tho some of the Wechsler tests are sensitive to increasing age, and (42) reiterated this caution. Brody (10) made a quantitative appraisal of test scatter in relation to dementia and (11) concluded that in "normal senility, although cognitive deterioration may be as severe as in dementia, the affective conative deterioration is proportionately much less. .…”

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Chapter VII: Intellectual Changes During Maturity and Old Age

Lorge¹

1944

Review of Educational Research

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SINCE THE LAST REVIEW of this topic, most of the references in this area of study have been concerned with the results of intelligence tests in psychosis. Generally, the estimation of intellectual deterioration in abnormal states implies a correction for changes in score and in quality of intellectual performance as a function of age. The accumulation of evidence concerning intellectual changes in maturity and old age definitely indicates that as people grow older their test performances change. It is clear that intellectual changes as a function of age create problems concerning the interpretation of adult scores and adult intelligence quotients; the relationship of previous education, experiences, and skills to measurement of adult intelligence; the factorial composition of adult intelligence tests; the relationship of intelligence test scores in childhood and youth to such measures in adult populations; and the standardization and norming of adult intelligence tests. Perhaps the most significant new development is the demonstration that qualitative aspect of intellectual performance is fully as important as quantitative variations. ReviewsThe most significant review of the field is that of Brody (9) who reviewed some 230 references on intellectual change in normal and psychotic adult populations. Cattell (14) listed forty-four available adult intelligence tests indicating the technical handicaps in the estimation of adult intelligence and suggesting the difference between fluid and crystallized intelligence where fluid refers to relations between both new and old fundaments and crystallized to habitual responses. Miles (44) and Miles and Miles (45) gave a provocative survey of the psychology of the aging process. Bijou (7) reviewed nineteen references on the usefulness of the concept of test pattern, and Buxton (13) reviewed the status of research in reminiscence (improvement in recall without practice after original learning) indicating that no reliable evidence exists that reminiscence is related to age, sex, or intelligence of' the learner. Wechsler and the related discussion by Shakow (60) implied that intellectual changes parallel physical changes albeit the components used to measure intellectual changes decline at different rates, but that drive, persistence, and experience are significant aspects of intellectual performance.

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Chapter VII: Intellectual Changes During Maturity and Old Age

Lorge¹

1944

Review of Educational Research

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“…Brody (1942aBrody ( , 1942b) used a battery of neuropsychiatric assessment scales to assess in-patients with and without dementia. However, his papers merely reflected the interest of the period on the neuropathology and neuropsychology of the various conditions, and not on how to improve the well-being and health of older people.…”

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The origins of old age psychiatry in Britain in the 1940s

Hilton

2005

Hist Psychiatry

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In the 1940s, some of the most influential psychiatrists of their day such as David K. Henderson and Aubrey Lewis were taking an active interest in the well-being of older people. Spurred on by the fears of a rising population of older people, overcrowding in mental hospitals, social changes and an awareness of the lack of knowledge of older people’s mental illnesses, they and others began to explore further the mental health needs of older people. There was a marked change from a predominant interest in neuropathology in older mental hospital patients to emphasis on the need to provide clinical care and treatment for people in the community. The establishment of the new specialty of geriatric medicine and inception of the National Health Service gave further impetus to service development.

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Mental Testing in Clinical Practice

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A Psychometric Study of Dementia

Cited by 11 publications

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Chapter VII: Intellectual Changes During Maturity and Old Age

Chapter VII: Intellectual Changes During Maturity and Old Age

The origins of old age psychiatry in Britain in the 1940s

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