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A comparison of the lacks and pascal‐suttell bender‐gestalt scoring methods for diagnosing brain damage in an outpatient sample
Author(s) -
Marsico Debra S.,
Wagner Edwin E.
Publication year - 1990
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(199011)46:6<868::aid-jclp2270460629>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - psychology , pascal (unit) , homogeneous , bender gestalt test , gestalt psychology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , discriminant , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , cognition , projective test , neuroscience , computer science , mathematics , psychoanalysis , combinatorics , perception , programming language
The Pascal‐Suttell method of scoring the Bender‐Gestalt Test, which is molecular and seemingly homogeneous, and the Lacks method, which is molar and apparently heterogeneous, were compared for efficacy in diagnosing brain‐damaged ( n = 52) vs. non‐brain‐damaged ( n = 52) outpatients. Both methods were superior to the FS WAIS IQ in making this distinction, and adding the WAIS in a discriminant analysis did not contribute much in terms of overall differentiation. The two scoring systems were correlated highly, and, although the predictive power of the Pascal‐Suttell procedure was a little better than that of the Lacks, the latter has some practical advantages in terms of applicability and ease of scoring.