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The Revised Kendrick Battery: Clinical studies
Author(s) -
Kendrick Don C.,
Gibson Andrew J.,
Moyes Isabel C. A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1979.tb00343.x
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , audiology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , battery (electricity) , developmental psychology , psychiatry , cognition , medicine , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
The former Kendrick Battery ‐ the Synonym Learning Test (SLT) and the Digit Copying Test (DCT) ‐ has been revised. The new version comprises the Object Learning Test (OLT) and the DCT. The discrepancy between Mill Hill and WAIS Verbasl IQs as a diagnostic sign has been eliminated. The Revised Battery has been shown to discriminate between elderly dementing and non‐dementing subjects, and also between normal, depressed, and dementing elderly subjects. Utilizing test‐retest data it has been found possible to discriminate absolutely between dementing and non‐dementing subjects. The reliabilities and validities of the Battery have been ascertained by examining a broad spectrum of elderly subjects: normal, depressed, dementing and institutionalized.