TY - JOUR
AU - Shipley, Walter C.
AB - Published as a separate and in The Journal of Psychology, 1940, 9, 371-377. A SELF-ADMINISTERING SCALE FOR MEASURING INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT AND DETERIORATION* Neuro-PJychiatrir Institute of the Hartford Retreat WALTER C. SHIPLEY~ The scale was devised to provide a quick, objective, self-administer- ing measure of mental deterioration. It was based on the clinico- experimental observations that in mental deterioration voccfbulary level tends to be affected but slightly, while the ability to see abstract relationships declines rapidly. These facts suggested using the dif- ferential between vocabulary and abstract thinking levels as an index of deterioration. The present scale, which consists of a vocabulary test and an abstract thinking test to be used together, was designed to measure this differential. That it does so, and thus provides an index of intellectual impairment, was brought out strikingly in measure- ments made on several hundred mental hospital patients. These data will be reported later. The present report is limited to a brief description of the background, construction, standardization, and reliability of the scale. BACKGROUND In mental deterioration the various intellectual functions do not de- cline at the same rate. This uneven decadence gives rise to excessive irregularity or “scattering” of responses on intelligence tests. 
TI - A Self-Administering Scale for Measuring Intellectual Impairment and Deterioration
JF - The Journal of Psychology
DO - 10.1080/00223980.1940.9917704
DA - 1940-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/a-self-administering-scale-for-measuring-intellectual-impairment-and-xWlM4iLIzw
SP - 371
EP - 377
VL - 9
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -