THE INCIDENCE OF BENDER-GESTALT FIGURE DEVIATIONS IN A GROUP OF MENTALLY RETARDED PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS

The Bender-Gestalt Test was given to thirty mentally-retarded psychiatric patients. The mean, standard deviation, and standard error were 56.73, 26.25, and 4.80 respectively. Rotation was the most frequent major deviation which occurred in all the designs. Design # 7 was the most difficult one to be...

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Main Authors: Habibollah Ghassemzadeh, Manijeh Nazeman,  Zahra M. Alem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 1994-06-01
Series:Acta Medica Iranica
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Online Access:https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/241
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Summary:The Bender-Gestalt Test was given to thirty mentally-retarded psychiatric patients. The mean, standard deviation, and standard error were 56.73, 26.25, and 4.80 respectively. Rotation was the most frequent major deviation which occurred in all the designs. Design # 7 was the most difficult one to be reproduced in the sample. This design by itself, was subject to 47% of distortion, 79% of omission, and 21% of rotation.
ISSN:0044-6025
1735-9694