background: the main goal of the current research is to evaluate the drawing quality of 4 to 12 years old on the basis of bender-gestalt test. bender-gestalt test is aimed to evaluate visual-motor abilities in children and educational assessments. methods:  the research is conducted in a descriptive framework. the sample included a total number of 707 normal children, aged 4-12 years old, who w...

Bender Gestalt 2 This study investigated the use of the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test (BVMGT) as a measure of social maturity. A group BVMGT was administered to 80 second grade children and scored using the Koppitz Developmental Scoring System. The Social Domain of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS) served as the measure of social maturity. It was hypothesized that there is a signif...

[This paper was a presidential address to Division 24 at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, September 1975. It was first published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 14, pp 23-32, then republished in M. Henle, 1879 and All That, Essays in the Theory and History of Psychology, Columbia University Press, New York 1986, pp 22-35. Have a look at th...

Gestalt psychology is often criticized as lacking quantitative measurements and precise mathematical models. While this is true of the early Gestalt school, today there are many quantitative approaches in Gestalt perception and the special issue of Vision Research "Quantitative Approaches in Gestalt Perception" showcases the current state-of-the-art. In this article we give an overview of these...

INTRODUCTION PERC rule was created to rule out pulmonary embolism (PE) without further exams, with residual PE risk<2%. Its safety is currently not confirmed in high PE prevalence populations even when combined with low clinical probability assessed by revised Geneva score (RGS). As PERC rule and RGS are 2 similar explicit rules with many redundant criteria, we hypothesized that the combination...

The Perceptual Organization Test (POT) has been designed for the purpose of measuring impairment in cognitive functioning as reflected in a purely perceptual task. Such a test is badly needed in view of the fact that the most widely used tests of perception are not really pure tests of perception. Bender Gestalt (Bender, 1960), for example, requires a certain measure of motor skill in copying n...

This paper discusses the compatibility ofMartin Buber’s dialogicmethod and active Gestalt therapy interventions, which are called experiments. The authors trace a brief history of the distinction between different psychotherapy systems which focus on the therapeutic relationship on the one hand or on active behavioural interventions on the other. They submit Gestalt therapy as a modality that i...

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