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SUMMARY The performance of samples of English children at five and eleven years on the Draw-a-Man test is assessed by the scoring methods of Goodenough and Harris. Proposals are made for improving definitions of some scoring instructions. Inters-corer reliabilities are reported. Average scores of the samples are compared to American norms. Relationships between scores on this test and other cognitive and educational tests arc interpreted.

In this combined behavioural and electrophysiological study of 51 normal young subjects, introverts and extraverts differed in per cent. time alpha and alpha amplitude. In contrast to earlier findings, introverts were higher in both. High and low scorers on neuroticism also differed in per cent. time alpha. Statistically significant associations were demonstrated between rate of change of potential (r.c.p) of the EEG and extraversion, and also between the frequency of the alpha rhythm and neuroticism. Thus relationships have been found between EEG parameters and behavioural measures of personality. The conflict with other findings and the relevance of this work to attempts to identity introversion– extraversion with "strength of the nervous system" or with "equilibrium in dynamism" are discussed.