Performance by 77 hearing-impaired elementary students on test of visual processing was compared with scores on a test of reading comprehension. Performance intelligence quotient correlated with both visual processing and reading scores. Some variance in reading scores was explained by intelligence quotient and performance on memory tests for…

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices, the Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test (NNAT), and the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) in selecting for ethnically diverse students who may be gifted. The participants of the study were 175 students enrolled in Grades 3-5 and Grade 8 in a…

To study the applicability of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) for assessing hearing-impaired children, nine hearing-impaired children (ranging in age from 6 years 4 months to 11 years 10 months) were administered the battery. Hearing losses for the nine children ranged from moderate to profound. During the evaluation of seven…

This test was designed primarily for the purpose of assisting social psychologists in researching sex roles and/or sex differences when a nonverbal instrument is desired. The hypothesis was that some objects would be easier for members of one gender to name. The subjects were 30 female and 20 male undergraduate students. Pictures of 65 commercial…

The extent to which human facial expressions are universal and cross-culturally recognizable has been the subject of considerable debate. Two approaches have been used in studies of facial expressions: the judgment approach entails showing examples of facial expressions to various cultures or groups of people and determining whether they interpret…

In this study, cognitive processes hypothesized to be relevant to the digit symbol task of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) were examined. Fifty-two undergraduate education students were divided into four groups to receive four different treatments. All the students took the digit symbol test, followed immediately by a test of their…

A battery of 16 newly devised tests intended as measures of "fluid" intelligence were administered, together with a number of other measures, and factor analyzed separately for a sample of Black children and a sample of White children. The results were judged to confirm the construct of fluid intelligence. (CTM)

Scores from 94 psychiatric and neurological patients on the 11 subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Halstead-Reitan Category and Finger Tapping tests were used in a factor analysis. The Category Test is not particularly sensitive to all types of brain pathology. (Author)

Evaluated the receptive vocabulary ability and nonverbal cognitive ability of 20 Spanish-speaking and 11 bilingual Mexican-American preschool children. The children obtained significantly lower scores on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised than on the Perceptual Performance Scale of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities. Bilingual…

Evaluated developmental trends in social perception by examining accuracy and consistency using a novel nonverbal trait-inference task at four age levels (5-6, 7-8, 9-11, and 19-22 years) in male subjects. This general paradigm may prove useful in future investigations of social perceptual development, particularly when consistency as well as…

Findings indicate that (1) development of probability reasoning can be shown by an increasing monotonic trend with age, (2) verbal tests assess different aspects of this development than do nonverbal tests, (3) Piaget's ontogenetic age brackets are accurate, and (4) sex and intelligence are not significant variables. (MH)