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A Short Battery of Simple Tests for Measuring Overinclusive Thinking

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

ABSTRACT

The three best measures of overinclusive thinking in Payne and Hewlett's (12)battery,those which had the highest saturations on the factor of overinclusion, were the Non-A score from the Object Classification test,the average number of words used in explaining the Benjamin proverbs, and the average number of objects per group selected during the "handing over" experiment in the Goldstein Object Sorting test.

A combined score of these three measures has been suggested, and Payne and Hewlett's data re-worked to show the positions of their groups of 20 normals, 20 neurotics, 20 endogenous depressives and 20 acute schizophrenics on this combined overinclusion score.The results are representative of Payne and Hewlett's data insofar as the schizophrenics are significantly more over inclusive than all the other groups. This short battery of three objective tests is simple enough to be of practical clinical value.