PSYCHOMETRIC
dren, on the other hand, did not seem to respond to the Wertheimer figures in any way suggestive of the manner of normal adults. Their reproductions are characterized by highly subjective, personal elaborations, omissions, and idiosyncracies. Both the inadequate neuro-muscular co-ordinations of the pre-readers and their unrealistic approach to task-oriented work may account for this hiatus.
CONCLVSIONS
Appraisal of the Bender Visual Motor
Gestalt Test results shows that there are significant differences in at least four major determinants when five-year-old and seven-year-old "normal" children are compared. These variances may be accounted for in part by the fact that the older children have had more training in taskoriented work, with standards imposed by adults. In large part, however, they seem BIBLIOGRAPHY BENDER, L. A . A Visual motor Gestalt test and its clinical use. New York, Xew York: American Orthopsychiatric Association, 1938. GOODENOUGH, F. Measurement of intelligence by drawing. Yonkers, New York: World Book Company, 1926, Ch. 1. Hum, M. A inimeographed outline of instructions on the evaluatich-iizterpretat~zIe determimnts in the Bender test. Prepared for use in the United States Army by clinical psychologists. Unpublished.