Psychometric measures

Gessner B, Voelp A, Klasser M. (1985). Study of the long-term action of a Ginkgo biloba extract on vigilance and mental performance as determined by means of quantitative pharmaco-EEG and psychometric measurements. Arzneimittelforschung. 35(9) 1459-65. 

Moran LJ, Kimhle JO, Mefferd RB Repetitive psychometric measures equating alternate forms. Psychol Rept. 14 335, 1964. 

Fluvoxamine. The second placebo-controlled study of a serotonin reuptake inhibitor in the treatment of social phobia to date involved fluvoxamine [Den Boer et al. 1994]. Thirty subjects with social phobia according to DSM-III-R criteria were randomly selected in a double-blind fashion in this 12-week study. At the end of this period, subjects who judged themselves as clinically improved were allowed to continue for an additional 12 weeks. Fourteen of 16 subjects in the fluvoxamine group opted to continue. No subjects in the placebo group proceeded into the follow-up phase of treatment. Fluvoxamine showed superiority to placebo on nearly all psychometric measures. 

The key assumption of this theory is that there is a continuum of cognitive style, ranging from high adaption to high innovation, on which people can be placed dependent on the characteristic mode in which they solve problems (create or make decisions). The Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI) is the psychometric measurement devised to locate respondents on this continuum. It is concerned with the different ways in which people think, and particularly the way they show their creativity, solve problems and make decisions. Three sub traits, which are measured to give a total score, are explained as follows [C-51] ... 

Some defining characteristics of adaptors and innovators found using this psychometric measure are shown below [C-51]. 

Your mentioning of social intelligence is, of course, not new a number of early differential psychologists discussed social intelligence, practical intelligence and abstract intelligence (essentially g) early in the 20th century. People interested in the multitude of psychometric measure that have been developed to get at these... 

Hamad I know that, but I am curious. Should it be the case, then, that three to four weeks of conversation ought to be able to beat the best psychometric measure ... 

Moran LJ, Mefferd RB. Repetitive psychometric measures. Psychol Rep. 1959 3 209-275. 

See Table 9.1 for Theresa s scores on these psychometric measures. 

Table 9.1 Psychometric measures used to assess Theresa s performance anxiety ...

Colin s problem improved considerably. He had a better understanding of his health anxiety and a marked reduction in reassurance seeking. Consequently, he was a lot less preoccupied with his health and was able to deal with thoughts about cancer, etc., when they did occur by thinking of plausible alternative explanations that were far less threatening to him. The psychometric measures were repeated at Session 11 and are shown in Table 11.1. 

Psychometric measures used to assess Colin s health anxiety 145... 

Santos RG, Landeira-Femandez J, Strassman RJ, Motta V, Cruz APM (2007) Effects of ayahnasca (m psychometric measures of anxiety, panic-Uke and hopelessness in Santo Daime members. J Ethnopharmacol 112 507—513. doi 10.1016/j.jep. 2007.04.012... 

De la Burde and Choate (1972) reported that among 70 inner-city Richmond, VA, children with a Pb exposure history, subnormal fine motor function, disturbed behavior, and some subnormal IQ results were measured. In follow-up studies of this group, these same workers (De la Burde and Choate, 1975) reported abnormal psychometric measures and impaired auditory, vocal, tactile recognition, and behavioral measures. 

Danish schoolchildren (Aarhus, first grade, N= 156) having urban community Pb exposures were tested using circumpulpal dentine Pb levels as exposure marker and various psychometric measures (Hansen et al., 1989). The Bender, WISC-R Full Scale, and Verbal Test IQ decrements were significantly associated with the dentine Pb levels. Urban community Pb exposures in Dunedin, New Zealand, children (age 11, V=579) were evaluated by... 

The second section concentrates on study results and current knowledge, and attempts to summarize what we know as a result of research in relation to lead and intelligence, educational attainment, behaviour, and other psychometric measures. The contribution of animal studies, and studies with electrophysiological outcome measures, to current knowledge is assessed. The problems in interpreting the existing data are discussed in relation to some of the methodological issues described in the first section. 

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