The Hunt-Minnesota Test for Organic Brain Damage in cases of functional depression.

Pe, Meehl; Jeffery, Marina

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“…The testing of the senile and of clearly deteriorated organic patients has tended to confirm the positive aspect of Babcock's hypothesis; they do indeed make higher scores on vocabulary than on other tests involving new learning, attention, and motor speed. With respect to differential diagnosis, troubles have arisen because of the relatively large proportion of normal persons and of undeteriorated patients who also test as if deteriorated when they really are not (22,27,28). These numerous "false positives" throw doubt on the usefulness of the method.…”

Section: Psychiatric Concepts Implemented Py Psychometric Testsmentioning

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Theoretical bases of psychometric tests.

Lf¹

1951

Relation of Psychological Tests to Psychiatry.

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D IAGNOSTIC psychological testing often has been described as an empirical art that suffers from the lack of a solid theoretical foundation. In one sense, the criticism is just, for no systematic and comprehensive theory underlies all that psychometric testing tries to accomplish as an aid to psychiatric diagnosis. Yet in another sense, psychological testing does rest upon certain assumptions. Every use that is made of a psychometric score implies that postulates are held concerning the nature of the test and concerning the human behavior that it samples. The trouble is that many such assumptions are unformulated and implicit. If they were explicit, perhaps they would not stand the light of critical scrutiny or of experimental study. It may be a constructive step to state a few of the more obvious assumptions openly, and allow them to be examined.

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Section: Psychiatric Concepts Implemented Py Psychometric Testsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theoretical bases of psychometric tests.

Lf¹

1951

Relation of Psychological Tests to Psychiatry.

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“…The Shipley-Hartford Retreat Scale [11] has not been proved useful for differentiating the "organic" from the "nonorganic" nor has H. F. Hunt's [7] technique, inasmuch as no individuals considered to be psychotic were included in the standardization. Meehl and Jeffery [10] question the specificity of the Hunt-Minnesota test for organic brain damage. Graham and Kendall [6] feel that their ".…”

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Diagnostic value of the Wechsler Memory Scale with selected groups of institutionalized patients.

Howard¹

1950

Journal of Consulting Psychology

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“…Research reports and experience indicate that psychotic and anxious or depressed persons, as well as persons with organic brain disease, may obtain pathological T-scores (9,13,14). The "inter-polated tests" do not seem to have sufficient sensitivity to provide for a differentiation between "organic" and "nonorganic" impairment.…”

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Tests of Intellectual Impairment.

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Contributions Toward Medical Psychology: Theory and Psychodiagnostic Methods, Vol II.

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The revised examination for The Measurement of Efficiency of mental functioning is planned to evaluate the mental efficiency of children and adults in both normal and abnormal mental conditions. Its purpose is not to make a medical diagnosis by giving a name to the condition; but rather to make a psychological diagnosis by determining the mental weaknesses and the available mental assets as a basis for appropriate therapy and guidance.Development of the Method.-Paretic patients who had been judged able to undergo malarial treatment were used in the first experimental work because their mental malfunctioning was attested to by other reliable criteria. The plan was to prove the validity of the examination by the differences between the scores of patients who would later be paroled and the others. The results showed a statistically reliable difference between the normal and paretic patients and also between the ones who were paroled and the ones who were not (1).Statistical validity for the groups, however, was not validity for the individuals who composed the groups. Some patients who had made the lowest scores were later paroled, while others who made relatively high scores were held in the hospital. Study of the history of the cases brought out the fact that low scores were not entirely due to diseased brains and that the paroled patients who scored very low were inferior in native intelligence, as shown also by their school and work histories, while the ones who had rated much higher on the efficiency examination but had been retained in the hospital were superior in potential intelligence as shown by their educational progress and professional careers. These findings led to the now obvious conclusion that scores are not revealing in themselves, but only in relation to norms for persons of the same level of abstract-74 1

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The Hunt-Minnesota Test for Organic Brain Damage in cases of functional depression.

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Theoretical bases of psychometric tests.

Theoretical bases of psychometric tests.

Diagnostic value of the Wechsler Memory Scale with selected groups of institutionalized patients.

Tests of Intellectual Impairment.

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