Memory-for-Designs Test: Revised General Manual

Graham, Frances K.

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“…Memory for design assesses the spatial perceptive ability and the immediate memory for simple geometric designs. The score analysis is presented in terms of error points (Graham and Kendall, 1960). Visual retention test is considered to test conceptual memory (Benton, 1963).…”

Section: Psychiatric Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovery in hydrocephalic dementia after shunt operation.

Gustafson¹,

Hagberg²

1978

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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SUM MARY Twenty-three patients with hydrocephalic dementia were studied before and after shunt operation, and improvement was found in 12. Before operation, the improved cases showed more symptoms of confabulation, gait disturbance, urinary incontinence, lack of insight, and constructional apraxia. The improvement was also most marked in these symptoms. The significance of general versus specific symptoms, duration, and aetiology is discussed from a differential diagnostic standpoint, and we conclude that the adequate and early diagnosis of hydrocephalic dementia is essential for good outcome after shunt operation, and that psychiatric and psychometric evaluation enable such a diagnosis to be made.

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Section: Psychiatric Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovery in hydrocephalic dementia after shunt operation.

Gustafson¹,

Hagberg²

1978

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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“…Be sure to look at the drawings carefully so you can make yours iust like it. Don't start to draw unti I I take the card away (Graham and Kendall, 1960).…”

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“…However, with the exception of the first two figures, the designs are relatively free of meaningful association and, on the basis of face validity, visual short term memory ( Figure 3). Graham and Kendall (1960) reported reliability correlations of • 99 for independent ratings of total scores. The index ofreliability using a split-half method was reported to be • 92 for the original population of 140 subiects, indicating good internal consistency.…”

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A study of the relationship between visual short term memory and speechreading in hearing impaired geriatrics

Hollevoet

2000

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The relationship between visual short term memory (as measured by the Memory for Designs Test} and speechreadi ng abi I ity (as measured by the Barley Speechreading Test)was investigated ina sample of twenty-seven hearing impaired geriatrics. Co.rrelation analysis verified a statistically significant relationship between Memory for Designs Test scores and Barley Speechreading Test scores. Partial 2 correlation revealed the relationship between speechreading scores and short term memory scores was rot influenced significantly by variance i_n chronological age or speech discrimination ability. Memory for Designs Test scores were shown to be accurate predictors of scores achieved on the Barley Speechreading Test.Results of this study suggest that development of different approaches (for evaluating speechreading ability of geriatrics) could prove more informative and useful than the speechreading tests currently in use. For example, development of a speechreading test, composed of several subtests (such as visual short term memory) which would evaluate specific factors related to speechreading ability, would optimize both clinical time and client progress.

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“…Initially, 285 Ss were administered the Space Thinking (Flags) Test (Thurstone & Jeffrey, 1959), the spatial relations test of the Differential Aptitude Test Battery (Bennett, Seashore, & Wesman, 1963), and the Memory for Designs Test (Graham & Kendall, 1960). A factor score for each S was obtained following the procedure described by Glass and Maguire (1966) in which the raw test scores are weighted by their respective factor loadings.…”

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The retrieval of abstract and concrete materials as functions of imagery, mediation, and mnemonic aids

Vesta

Sunshine

1974

Memory & Cognition

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This study is areport of an investigation of the interaction between imagery ability and processes employed for facilitating recall. The tasks were assumed to involve contrasting processes through the use of imaginal or verbal mediators and concrete or abstract jingles (mnemonic aids) in memorizing two concrete and two abstract lists of 10 words in each list. The dependent variables were latencies in arriving at an association, number of errors and omissions on immediate recall, and number of errors and omissions on delayed recall. The main effects of imagery ability, favoring high imagers, and of kind of lists favoring concrete lists were significant. In delayed recall there was a significant interaction of mnemonic aid and kind of list. Irnagery ability interacted with mediators to influence Ss' recall. The results were discussed as supporting Paivio's two-stage association model. Paivio (I969) has suggested that the learner, either because he has a preference for using images or because images are more available than words, tends to use an imagery strategy with concrete words. On the other hand, confronted with a task in which he is required to associate abstract terms, the learner employs a strategy emphasizing verbal association.Of a number of experimental procedures used in tests of Paivio's theory, two were of concern in the present study. In one procedure, a jingle ("one is a bun," "two is a shoe," and so on) was employed as a mnemonic aid. Applied to the assumption in the aforegoing paragraph, it would be expected that a jingle consisting of concrete pegwords should facilitate the use of an imagery strategy; a jingle consisting of abstract pegwords should facilitate the use of a verbal strategy.In another procedure, instructions were employed to induce the S to use either an imagery or a verbal-associations strategy when learning the word pairs by use of a mnemonic device (paivio & Yuille, 1969).However, induction of treatments via instructions only may be a weak manipulation. Accordingly, the procedure was modified by Paivio and Foth (1970) by requiring the S, in the imaginal-set treatment, to draw a picture linking the pegword to its serial counterpart in the list to be learned, and by requiring the S, in the verbal-set treatment, to write a sentence using the two words. These methodological variations provide means by which learner strategies can be manipulated. In terms of the initial assumption, it would be expected that imaginal sets would be more easily applied to concrete than to abstract materials, while verbal sets would be more effective for abstract materials than would imaginal sets.In addition to examining the relation between recall *The research reported in this paper was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA Order No. 1269) through the Office of Naval Research under Contract ONR Nonr N00014-67-A-0385-006. and abstractness (or concreteness) of pegwords in mnemonic aids and between recall and mediational strategy, another purpose of the present study was to investigate ...

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Memory-for-Designs Test: Revised General Manual

Cited by 103 publications

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Recovery in hydrocephalic dementia after shunt operation.

Recovery in hydrocephalic dementia after shunt operation.

A study of the relationship between visual short term memory and speechreading in hearing impaired geriatrics

The retrieval of abstract and concrete materials as functions of imagery, mediation, and mnemonic aids

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