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PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINING IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY. 



141 



Test Q, memory for designs. 



Materials. — Use the four plates of designs on pages 147-148. Examiner provides subject with pencil and paper 

 beforehand. 



Directions. — Formula for (a) and (6): "I am going to show you a drawing. You will have just 10 seconds to look 

 at it, then I will take it away and let you draw it from memory. Don't begin till I say 'Go.' " Formula for (c) and 

 (d): "This time I will show you two drawings. You will have only 10 seconds to look at them, then I will take them 

 away and you are to draw them both from memory." 1 



Before exposing the designs, examiner says, "Ready. Look closely." When designs are removed, examiner 

 says, "GO." 



Designs are exposed with greatest length of page horizontal, and with front of "guide" toward examiner. 



Scoring. — The possible scores for each of the four items are full credit, half credit, failure. The standards for 

 these scores correspond to current scoring of the Binet design. Full credit is given only if the essential plan of the 

 design has been grasped and reproduced. A slight error reduces the credit to half. Half credit is given for (c) and 

 (d) when one of the two parts is reproduced correctly and the other half correctly. 



Full credit is given for (d) only in case — (1) left design is drawn with four parts and the right with six; (2) the 

 right design is made longer than the left; (3) the divisions of the left design are made equal and those of the right pro- 

 gressively smaller from left to right. 



Test R, logical memory. 



Materials. — (1) Paragraphs designated as passage 1, 2, 3, etc., on page 142; (2) tracing paper. 



Directions. — Having selected a passage for use and recorded its number in the place provided on the record blank, 

 examiner places the passage (in guide) before subject, and says, "Bead this out loud. Try to remember it as well as 

 you can. No matter whether you remember the exact words or not." 



The time of reading is to be measured with a stop watch. Errors (omissions or changes) and defective articula- 

 tions are to be recorded. Mistakes which are corrected are not counted. 



As soon as subject has finished reading, examiner takes the guide, places a piece of tracing paper over the barred 

 copy of the passage and says, "Now tell me what you read." Examiner should indicate each idea recalled by mark- 

 ing it on the tracing paper. If subject pauses for 15 seconds, examiner says, " What else?" Allow credit for responses 

 begun during the next 15 seconds, after which discontinue the test. Examiner should record all false memories or 

 tendencies to fabrication. 



Time for recall, 2 minutes. 



i Begin with design (a), on p. 14S, and give in the order (a), (6), (c), (d). 



