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Stories Children Tell: Should the Thematic Apperception Test Be Included in Psychoeducational Assessments?
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Calderon, Orly; Kupferberg, Rachel – Contemporary School Psychology, 2022
Federal law requires that psychoeducational evaluations be comprehensive, and utilize variety of assessment measures that evaluate the child's functioning along academic and cognitive domains as well as life skills outside of the classroom (Wiley, 2014) . Previous research suggests the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Harvard University Press,…
Descriptors: Psychological Testing, Projective Measures, Psychoeducational Methods, Children
Sequence Learning with Stochastic Feedback in a Cross-Cultural Sample of Boys in the Autistic Spectrum
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Hentschel, Maren; Lange-Kuttner, Christiane; Averbeck, Bruno B. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
The study investigated sequence learning from stochastic feedback in boys with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and typically developed (TD) boys. We asked boys with ASD from Nigeria and the UK as well as age- and gender-matched controls (also males only) to deduce a sequence of four left and right button presses, LLRR, RRLL, LRLR, RLRL, LRRL and…
Descriptors: Males, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Foreign Countries
Thought Disorder in Asperger Syndrome: Comparison with High-Functioning Autism.
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Ghaziuddin, Mohammad; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1995
This study compared Rorschach test performance of 12 subjects with Asperger syndrome (AS) and 12 subjects with high-functioning autism (HFA, mean age 12 years). AS subjects demonstrated a trend toward greater levels of disorganized thinking than the HFA group and were more likely to be classified as "introversive." The test did not…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Cognitive Processes, Personality Assessment, Personality Traits
An Advanced Test of Theory of Mind: Understanding of Story Characters' Thoughts and Feelings by Able Autistic, Mentally Handicapped, and Normal Children and Adults.
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Happe, Francesca G. E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
Testing with a battery of naturalistic stories found that the 24 subjects with autism were impaired (compared to normal and mentally disabled controls) at providing context-appropriate mental state explanations for the story characters' nonliteral utterances. Even those autistic subjects who performed well on standard Theory of Mind tasks showed…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Processes, Empathy, Evaluation Methods
Primary Process Integration on the Rorschach and Achievement in Children.
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Russ, Sandra W. – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1980
The relationship between primary process integration (PPI) and achievement was investigated. Fifty-one second graders received the Rorschach, which was scored by Holt's Primary Process Scoring System. Achievement criteria were academic grade average and reading test scores. The hypothesis that PPI is positively related to achievement was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Grade 2, Grade Point Average
Children's Rorschach Scores as Predictors of Later Adjustment.
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Tuber, Steven B. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1983
Tested the hypothesis that Rorschach measures of object relations and thought organization could help predict later adjustment. Former patients (N=70) at a child residential treatment center were followed up as adults. Object relations measures were found to be effective discriminators and predictors of later rehospitalization for boys. (JAC)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Emotional Adjustment