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- Title
THE ABSTRACT THINKING ABILITIES OF MENTAL PATIENTS.
- Authors
Karson, Samuel; Pool, Kenneth Bryner
- Abstract
The article presents information about psychological tests purporting to measure abstract thinking abilities. An exploratory factor study in the general area of abstract thinking was undertaken for the purpose of searching for common factors in a variety of measures believed to be of value in evaluating patients' abstract thinking abilities or impairment of such abilities. Approach had a significant loading on our intelligence factor, and that our analysis failed to reveal the presence of a rigidity-flexibility factor in our battery of abstract thinking tests.
- Subjects
THOUGHT &; thinking; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; PEOPLE with mental illness; PSYCHOLOGICAL techniques; CLINICAL psychology; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1957, Vol 13, Issue 2, p126
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-4679(195704)13:2<126::AID-JCLP2270130205>3.0.CO;2-S