THE SPOT-THE-WORD TEST - A ROBUST ESTIMATE OF VERBAL INTELLIGENCE BASED ON LEXICAL DECISION
THE SPOT-THE-WORD TEST - A ROBUST ESTIMATE OF VERBAL INTELLIGENCE BASED ON LEXICAL DECISION
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DOI：
10.1111/j.2044-8260.1993.tb01027.x
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发表时间：
1993-02-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
NIMMOSMITH, I
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BADDELEY, A;EMSLIE, H;NIMMOSMITH, I
描述了一种旨在估计病前智力的测试的发展。这项名为Spot-the-Word的测试涉及向受试者呈现由一个单词和一个非单词组成的项目对，并要求受试者识别该单词。数据显示，根据Mill Hill词汇得分和全国成人阅读测试(NART)的表现，成绩与言语智力高度相关。与言语识别记忆相关的测试相反，成绩不会随着年龄的增长而下降。第二项研究试图测试因年龄而导致的智力衰退对即席单词成绩的影响。无论AH4测试测量的液态智力是保存良好还是较低，词汇得分高的老年受试者在单词现场得分都很高，这意味着智力下降。最后一项研究收集了224名受试者的标准数据，样本按年龄和社会经济地位分层，每个受试者执行两种平行形式的测试，A和B，以及NART。两个量表之间的相关系数为.884，而与NART的相关系数为.831(表格A)和.859(表格B)，表明有足够的信度和效度。结论是，这项测试提供了一种潜在的有用的额外方法来估计病前智力。
The development of a test aimed at estimating premorbid intelligence is described. The test, Spot-the-Word, involves presenting the subject with pairs of items comprising one word and one non-word, and requiring the subject to identify the word. Data show that performance correlates highly with verbal intelligence as estimated by Mill Hill Vocabulary score and by performance on the National Adult Reading Test (NART). Performance does not decline with age, in contrast to an associated test of verbal recognition memory. A second study attempted to test the effect of intellectual deterioration due to age on Spot-the-Word performance. Elderly subjects who had high vocabulary scores scored well on the Spot-the-Word regardless of whether fluid intelligence as measured by the AH4 test was well preserved, or was low, implying intellectual deterioration. A final study collected normative data on a sample of 224 subjects stratified by age and socio-economic status, with each subject performing two parallel forms of the test, A and B, together with the NART. Correlation between the two forms was .884, while correlation with NART was .831 for Form A and .859 for Form B, suggesting adequate reliability and validity. It is concluded that the test provides a potentially useful additional method of estimating premorbid intelligence.