This study aimed to investigate the effect of play type, playtime and type toy on children's mental development, social skills intelligence. The kindergarten Mazandaran province in 2012 took place. study's statistical population included 630 children 2012-13. Using Jesse Morgan table simple random sampling method, 240 was considered sample size. data collection method based a questionnaire chec...

Abstract The presence of comorbid Irlen syndrome (IS) in children with developmental dyslexia (DD) may have an impact on their reading and cognitive abilities. Furthermore, the brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) was reported to be expressed brain areas involved visual processing. aim this study evaluate some abilities a group dyslexic IS measure compare plasma BDNF level without neurotypi...

Psychological tests are intended to measure individual differences. One of the first things most people associate with psychology is testing. You can find some kind of "psychological test" in popular magazines, which claim to measure everything from your intelligence or your personality to how good a lover you are. Such tests can be described as "pop tests.” Most people have also heard of and m...

OBJECTIVE This study examined social behaviors related to attachment in children with autistic disorder and the differences in these behaviors from those observed in developmentally disabled children. Additionally, we aimed to investigate the relationship between attachment behaviors and clinical variables, such as age, cognitive development, severity of autism, language development, and mother...

The writer became much interested, while serving as Assistant Psychologist at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital in the summer of 1916, in "irregularity" on a psychological examination as shown by insane patients. The results of a special study of this subject, using the Point Scale, have already appeared,1 and were summarized briefly in a paper at the annual meetings of the Psychological Associa...

analytical purposes. According to Bronner, Healy, Lowe, and Shimberg (1) a numerical evaluation is very limited in its revelations. As put together the Stanford-Binet forms a hodge-podge of tests and the values given for success in each are quite arbitrary. Thorndike (7) criticizes the scale for ambiguity of content, arbitrariness in units, and ambiguity in significance. "What the individual te...

Current research suggests that effort indices designed for the detection of malingered neurocognitive functioning do not have adequate sensitivity or specificity for use in cases where malingered mental retardation (MR) is the issue. Therefore, development and validation of reliable, objective measures for the detection of malingered MR have become imperative for both forensic and disability ca...

Following the total raw scores of SB5 testing, scores were divided into two groups and then item difficulty and the discrimination index were calculated within 165 children from the total sample. Besides, the study also sought to perform an age specific (6-16) item analysis from those total students. The adaptation and modification of the items were done based on the difficulty, discriminating ...