A comparison of the lacks and pascal-suttell bender-gestalt scoring methods for diagnosing brain damage in an outpatient sample
✍ Scribed by Debra S. Marsico; Edwin E. Wagner
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 786 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
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.
The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test (B-G), developed by Loretta Bender (Bender, 1938), was assumed to be an indicator of perceptual or motor ability or the integration of the two . concluded that the primary use of the Bender-Gestalt Test was in the diagnosis of organicity. In descending order, it also was used for the assessment of psychopathology, mental retardation, and personality dynamics. Since its inception, the B-G has been a popular psychological test, ranked anywhere from first to third within the years 1959 to