The Effects Of Anxiety And Reinforcement Conditions On Digit Span Performance Of The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Author : Arthur G. Storey
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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book Wechsler-Bellevue Performance as a Function of Interpersonal Anxiety written by Arthur G. Storey and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypotheses that: 1. neurotic individuals behave differently under test conditions than non-neuroticsj 2. at least part of this abnormal behavior is due to the face-to-face relationship with the examiner in the usual testing situation; and 3. the neurotic's performance on the Digit Span subtest of the Wechsler-Belle vue Scale is impaired due to his neurosis and his face-to-face relationship with the examiner. The three Wechsler-Bellevue tests Digit Span, Similarities, and Picture Completion from Form II were administered together with the Digit Span test from Form I to fifty adult neurotics selected on an availability basis. Half of the examinees took the Digit Span test from Form I first, and the same test from Form II last. These Digit Span tests were given in the reverse order to the other twenty-five subjects. Half of the subjects took the test while separated from the examiner by a large screen designed to remove the examinee-examiner face-to-face relationship existent in normal testing situations. The same tests were given under the same conditions and in the same order to a matched sample of non-neurotic individuals. The samoles were matched in respect to age, marital status, and sex. The age range from twenty to forty-seven years with a mean age of 3U. U6 years. It was found that the neurotics' overt behavior was significantly different from that of the non-neurotics in that they were more ill at ease, made more errors in the order in which they repeated digits, gave digits in consecutive ascending or descending order more frequently, and repeated digits with undue haste more frequently than did non-neurotics. The neurotics were distracted more frequently than the non-neurotics and named the picture from which the part was missing in the Picture Completion test more often than did the non-neurotics. No significant differences were found to exist in the neurotics' Wechsler performance insofar as the screened condition was concerned as opposed to the face-to-face condition. Nor was there any significant difference between the neurotics' and the nonneurotics' Digit Span performance in either the screened or the face-to-face condition.