In this article, the author reviews the Ruff Neurobehavioral Inventory (RNBI), a self-report questionnaire designed to assess an individual's ability to function in cognitive, emotional, physical, and psychosocial domains, before and after a major illness or injury. The measure is designed to be used with men and women ages 18 to 75 who have at…

This study investigates the relation between cognitive tempo and color responding on the Rorschach. (DEP)

HYPOTHESIZING THAT CONGENITALLY BLIND ADULTS WOULD SCORE LOWER ON TESTS OF ABSTRACTION THAN ADVENTITIOUSLY BLIND OR SIGHTED ADULTS, THIS STUDY TESTED 25 CONGENITALLY BLIND, 25 ADVENTITIOUSLY BLIND, AND 25 SIGHTED SUBJECTS. THE WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE (WAIS) VOCABULARY TEST WAS ADMINISTERED TO EACH GROUP AND RESULTS SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT…

Piaget's conception of cognitive development as the development of a set of skills resulting from interaction with the environment has had a great effect on contemporary educational theory and spurred the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to develop a set of written exercises based on this concept. Piaget's emphasis, however, was on concrete…

This report is on one aspect of a study that is trying to provide a reference basis for different researchers in their combined efforts to conceptualize and develop a theory and structure of human abilities and temperament. Specifically, the study is directed toward the identification of tests and other instruments that can serve as markers for…

The objective of this study was to test the cognitive identity of older male and female populations with reference to raw score, component structure, and component score measures of spatial and verbal performance. Women (N=100) and 96 men were administered three verbal and six nonverbal cognitive subtests. (Author)

In response to Webb and Shavelson (EJ 241 567), Nussbaum questions the relevance of the universe score variance as a meaning reliability index and whether it is useful to determine the weights which enter into a composite by means of maximum generalizability. (CM)

Answering Nussbaum's (TM 507 069) criticism, the generalizability coefficient for absolute decisions, the use of the error variance formula, composites of maximum generalizability, and covariance components are discussed as yardsticks of measurement precision with arguments for the use of each procedure to interpret data. (CM)

Investigates A. Richardson's (1969) research on the relationship between imagery and problem solving, i.e., that uncontrolled vivid imagery could impede problem solving by disrupting a profitable line of thought, but that imagery, particularly controlled vivid imagery, could aid problem solving by providing an alternate mode of thinking to verbal…

Tentative normative data for the Make a Figure Test (J. Allen and others, 1992) are presented for young adults (n=100), middle-aged adults (n=27), and geriatric adults (n=34). Results suggest that the Make a Figure Test may be a good measure of executive functioning that allows for novel design production. (SLD)

Cognitive testing aided the development of a questionnaire for the Current Population Survey that is readily understood, does not invoke a negative image, and allows pinpointing of circumstances related to multiracial reporting. (JOW)

Examines mechanisms that may account for why evaluations made by participants involved in conversations are more influenced by subliminal negative cues than are evaluations made by observers. Explains three studies in which subliminal priming tasks were used with differing cognitive loads and self-preservation concerns among a group of…

The relationship between reasoning ability, as indicated by performance on conventional reasoning tests, and working memory capacity was investigated in 4 studies involving 723, 412, 414, and 595 military recruits, respectively. The results demonstrate a consistently high correlation between general reasoning ability and general working-memory…

Maintains that graphic skills may reveal a dementia process in progress. Describes a simple, nonverbal screening method, tested on 1,500 aged subjects, which uses geometric copying, handwriting, and freehand figure drawing to screen for social and/or cognitive disorders. Shows that these graphic skills drop in a prescribed order with decreasing…

Reanalysis of A. Feingold's examination of variability differences between males and females on several nationally normed cognitive test batteries does not yield substantially different conclusions, but the method of averaging variance ratios exaggerates the differences in male and female variability. Simply averaging ratios of variance can lead…