PURPOSE To review the content and psychometric characteristics of 6 published tests currently available to aid in the study, diagnosis, and treatment of motor speech disorders in children. METHOD We compared the content of the 6 tests and critically evaluated the degree to which important psychometric characteristics support the tests' use for their defined purposes. RESULTS The tests varie...

BACKGROUND The Generalized Anxiety Disorder Severity Scale (GADSS) is an interview rating scale designed specifically for assessing symptom severity of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), which has demonstrated positive psychometric data in a sample of adult primary care patients with GAD and panic disorder. However, the psychometric properties of the GADSS have not been evaluated for older adu...

This paper is concerned with two different mechanisms of attention in auditory signal detection. One alters the width of a Gaussian filter (or attention band), whereas the other changes the tuning. that is. the placement of its center. To formalize these mechanisms, we first consider auditory energy-detection. To explore the effect of a randomly tuned filter, both unifonn and normal density dis...

One approach to subtyping alcoholics is the use of psychometric tests that quantify a person 's personality characteristics, psychological characteristics, and intelligence. Cor example, researchers have used the Personality Research Corm, which measures basic personality traits, to establish alcoholism typologies. Other psychometric measures that have been employed in the classification of alc...

A 20 year old female pedophile exhibiting multiple paraphilias and who had been both a victim of incest and an active participant, undertook extensive clinical, psychometric, endocrine and laboratory sexual arousal studies. Her psychiatric, psychometric and physiologic arousal profiles showed similarities to those of a sizable proportion of male child molesters, especially incestors. It is sugg...

Nine aphasia tests are reviewed using six psychometric criteria appropriate to standardized tests. The number of criteria met by individual tests ranged from one to five, with a median and mode of three. A seventh criterion was applied to six tests that used normative data. Two of the six reviewed tests met that criterion. The need for test manuals to contain a wide range of psychometric inform...

Problem description: Our research concerns psychometric diagnoses basing on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test [1, 3, 4]. The goal of MMPI test is to count the personality–psychometric dimensions which help in differential diagnosis of given person and to assess psychotherapy results. Finally given person should be assigned to one (or two if given case is placed on a bo...

This chapter reviews research on whether individual differences in psychometric intelligence, working memory, and other less investigated variables, such as emotion and personality, affect implicit learning, with particular focus on Reber’s evolutionary theory and Kaufman’s dual-process theory for implicit learning. The review shows that while the null effects of psychometric intelligence on im...

The use of judgment-based global measures of clinical treatment effects has a long history in the regulatory approval of drugs for the treatment of dementia. This paper reviews current use of these measures, noting several practical difficulties with their implementation. Importantly, global measures have usually yielded general estimates of drug effects similar to psychometric test batteries, ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The present study examined the psychometric characteristics of the Neonatal Abstinence Scoring System (NASS; "Finnegan Scale") and the MOTHER NAS Scale (MNS). METHODS Secondary analysis of data from 131 neonates from the Maternal Opioid Treatment: Human Experimental Research (MOTHER) study, a randomized trial in opioid-dependent pregnant women administered buprenorph...