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The present report deals with the validity of the Shipley-Hartford Retreat Scale as a brief paper-and-pencil measure of current intellectual functioning. Although the Shipley-Hartford scale was devised primarily as a scale to reflect intellectual deficit, and its subsequent evaluation has indicated limited utility as a measure of deterioration, several investigators have been interested in its usefulness as a measure of functioning intelligence. This paper presents a table that summarizes some relationships between various brief measures of intelligence and the Wechsler Bellevue Scales.

The article discusses individual bias in psychological reports. There has been considerable study of the relationship between the examiner and subject during conventional test administration and of the influence of the examiner upon the subject's responses in a variety of testing situations. Individual differences in examiners' processing data secured from the use of projective techniques have also been studied and reports are beginning to appear about the influence of the personality of the examiner on his reports about subjects. The present paper is a report of a study designed to examine the systematic variation in the content of psychologists' reports and their individual biases. The subjects were three graduate students in psychology who were serving their internship-training year at Duke Hospital a few years ago.

This article focuses on an alternate form of the Series Completion test. The Series Completion test, requires that the subject form abstractions from visually presented problems and use these abstractions to complete a series. Since practice effect on this test may play a role in repeated testing, as, for example, in follow up studies of electro-convulsive. shock or prefrontal lobotomy in which several testings may be given-an alternate form has been developed, by use of which it is hoped to tap the same abilities now measured by Series Completion I. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of the alternate form, Series Completion II, and to present tentative norms for the evaluation of results.

The article discusses the comparative sensitivity of the qualitative and quantitative Porteus maze scores to drug effects. In a series of papers, summarized in the most recent test manual, S.D. Porteus has shown that quantitative scores on the Maze Test decline under the administration of chlorpromazine. No data are presented with regard to drug effects on the qualitative scores. Qualitative scores represent a weighted coding of ongoing expressive movement exhibited in the course of completing the mazes. As qualitative maze scores are related to maze difficulty, repetition of the mazes should result in a decline of qualitative scores with a corresponding decline in range of variation. Any factor increasing the number of qualitative errors should also increase the possible range of variation. Individual differences in drug response should also increase the range of variation. It was therefore postulated that variance changes should be more sensitive to drug effects than mean changes.