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A process approach to the bender‐gestalt test and its use in differentiating schizophrenic, brain‐damaged, and medical patients
Author(s) -
Mermelstein Jeffrey J.
Publication year - 1983
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(198303)39:2<173::aid-jclp2270390205>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - bender gestalt test , gestalt psychology , psychology , perception , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , projective test , neuroscience , psychoanalysis
Developed a processing model that would account for the shifting of attention that occurs as individuals copy Bender‐Gestalt designs. Process oriented variations of the Bender‐Gestalt test were designed that emphasized each of the three processes hypothesized to contribute to Bender‐Gestalt performance: Perceptual‐motor integration, attentional factors, and short‐term memory. A standard Bender‐Gestalt and the three variations were administered to 24 schizophrenics, 24 brain‐damaged patients, and 24 medical patients, matched for intelligence and sex. Protocols were scored blindly by the Pascal‐Suttell and Hain methods. Discriminant function analysis based upon the four versions of the Bender‐Gestalt test classified patients as schizophrenic or brain‐damaged at a significantly higher rate than the stand ard Bender‐Gestalt scored by either the Pascal‐Suttell or Hain system.