Psychometric data on the group embedded figures test for Turkish undergraduate students

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 96, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 993-1004

  Cakan, Mehtap ^a,b  

^a Abant Izzef Baysal University   (Turkey)

^b ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REPRODUCIBILITY; STUDENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS; TURKEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141463913     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.96.3.993     Document Type: Article

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