Bu araştırmada klasik kuramlara göre puanlayıcılar arası uyum katsayılarını karşılaştırmak amaçlanmıştır. Farklı ölçekleme türlerine elde edilen katsayılar üzerinden hesaplanan değerler arasındaki farka odaklanılmış ve türüne karar vermenin önemi ortaya konmuştur. Puanlanan puanlayıcı sayısının değişmesinin değerleri etkileyip etkilemediğine bakılmış genellenebilirlik kuramının optimizasyon ana...

BACKGROUND Since psychological tests such as questionnaire or drawing tests are almost qualitative, their results carry a degree of uncertainty and sometimes subjectivity. The deficiency of all drawing tests is that the assessment is carried out after drawing the objects and lots of information such as pen angle, speed, curvature and pressure are missed through the test. In other words, the psy...

Recent scientific studies highlight the interrelation of craniofacial growth and cerebral development. The cerebral cortex, important for the cognition, is directly related to sensitivity, motricity, and associative areas that command the organization of visual-constructive praxis. The objective was evaluate the neuropsychologic visualconstructive praxis perceptual functions of children with re...

Patients with Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) frequently display cognitive comorbidity and can have widespread network abnormalities, which might affect a variety of cognitive and intellectual functions. As a result, refractory TLE seems to be associated with slow but ongoing cognitive deterioration. The case is of a 32 year old, right handed male, engineering graduate, diagnosed with TLE- right m...

Expert clinicians were given batteries of psychodiagnostic test results (Rorschach, TAT, Draw-A-Person, Bender-Gestalt, Wechsler) to analyze. For half, a battery came along with a suggestion that the person su€ers from Borderline Personality disorder, and for half, that battery was accompanied by a suggestion that he su€ers from Paranoid Personality disorder. In Study 1, the suggestion was made...

This was a study to compare the psychiatric consequences of closed head injury (CHI) in 37 patients with 39 demographically similar patients with fractured lower limb injury (FLLI), aged 16-55 years. The outcome measures were the Clinical Interview Schedule-Revised, the Bender Gestalt Test and the WHO AUDIT Core for alcohol abuse. The final diagnoses were made according to DSM-III-R diagnostic ...

[This paper was a presidential address to Division 24 at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, September 1975. It was first published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 14, pp 23-32, then republished in M. Henle, 1879 and All That, Essays in the Theory and History of Psychology, Columbia University Press, New York 1986, pp 22-35. Have a look at th...

PURPOSE This study aimed to explore cognitive functions in patients with childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (CEOP) and to compare the performance of these patients with that of patients with symptomatic occipital epilepsy (SOE) and healthy control subjects. METHOD Twenty-eight patients with epilepsy (17 CEOP, 11 SOE) were enrolled. The control group had similar demographical characte...