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A Note on the use of the 1937 Revision of the Stanford Binet Vocabulary List in Mental Hospital Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

M. B. Brody*
Affiliation:
Runwell Hospital, Essex

Extract

The Terman vocabulary test is probably used in mental hospitals more often than any other single test for measuring intelligence. The 1937 Stanford Binet Vocabulary List contains only 45 words selected from the original hundred. There is therefore a temptation to use it in place of the old one on account of its brevity. But this may cause serious errors.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1940 

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