A study of the differential responses on the vocabulary sub-test of the Wechsler intelligence scale for children

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A study of the differential responses on the vocabulary sub-test of the Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale

“…SUMMARY The responses of three groups of adults, one moron, one borderline, and one dullnormal were analyzed in terms of total I& on the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale and as to the proportion of their vocabulary responses that fell into the descriptive, functional, or categorical categories. In contrast to what was obtained with two groups of children (4), no significant differences were found among the proportions of the three types of responses among the three adult groups, though the same trend was seen to emerge. When the two age groups were compared, a significantly greater proportion of descriptive and categorical responses were found to occur in the older age group than in the younger, and a significantly greater proportion of functional responses in the younger age group than in the older age group.…”

“…The authors, using a suggestion in an article by Reva A. Gerstein'l) as a point of departure, conducted a study intended t o discover some relationship between the use of language and the underlying cognitive process (4). That is, instead of merely determining whether a definition of a word given on a vocabulary test is correct or incorrect, the study aimed at differentiating the level of definition credited as correct, and to see whether groups at different intelligence levels would perform differentially.…”

The abstract thinking abilities of mental patients

“…Moreover, our results here are similar to those reported by Stacey and Spanier(*O), who found that contrary to expectation, in their group of superior intelligence, the functional definitions on Wechsler-Bellevue I Vocabulary were actually associated more with lower intelligence than the descriptive type or concrete definitions. This finding was in general agreement with two earlier studies(l8> 19) using subnormals, which suggested that the descriptive type definition on Wechsler-Bellevue I Similarities is actually of a slightly higher level than the functional definition. These findings are in agreement with those reported by Chodorkoff and Mussen (5), who compared the vocabulary responses of a group of normals and schizophrenics and found that the lattcr selected a significantly greater number of function and example types of definition, that the normals chose significantly more class definitions and that descriptive (concrete) definitions were chosen with about equal frequency by both groups.…”

Effects of anxiety and intelligence on concept formation.

“…1) The exclusive use of position attributes controlled for possible interactions of attribute type with anxiety and intelligence, Hoffman (1955) found large differences in concept formation proficiency due to intelligence for some types of attributes ana no differences for others. Stacey and Markin ( 1951) found preferences for the use of different attributes at different intelligence levels, Ate (1953) found clinically anxious subjects were better able to use intensity attributes, whereas ncnanxious subjects were better able to use qualitative or pattern attributes. 2) Position attributes also permitted a wide variation in the number of attributes employed in the tasks.…”