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Visual‐motor test performance: Race and achievement variables
Author(s) -
Fuller Gerald B.,
Friedrich Douglas
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197907)35:3<621::aid-jclp2270350326>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - psychology , bender gestalt test , test (biology) , developmental psychology , copying , academic achievement , race (biology) , motor skill , psychomotor learning , distortion (music) , cognition , projective test , paleontology , amplifier , botany , cmos , neuroscience , electronic engineering , political science , psychoanalysis , law , biology , engineering
Tested rural Michigan black ( N = 60) and white ( N = 60) children of variant academic achievement on the Minnesota Percepto‐Diagnostic Test for visual‐motor skill development. The test, which consists of six gestalt designs for the person to copy, includes four measures of such skill development: Degree of copied design rotation and errors of separation of circle‐diamond, distortion of circle‐diamond and distortion of dots. In general, analyses that statistically controlled for intellectual level indicated that race was not a significant variable in the relationship of achievement level and visual‐motor test performance. That is, such analyses resulted only in a significant achievement effect; low achievers, in comparison with high achievers, performed poorly on the copying test. Only with distortion of circle‐diamond errors was a race interactive effect noted; i. e., black low achievers had significantly more errors than black high achievers, white low achievers or white high achievers. Results were discussed in relation to environmental determinants and symptomatology correlates.