Comparability, reliability, and practice effects on alternate forms of the Digit Symbol Substitution and Symbol Digit Modalities tests

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 237-241

  Hinton Bayre, Anton ^a   Geffen, Gina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternate forms; Digit Symbol; Reliability; Symbol Digit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; DIGITAL SYMBOL SUBSTITUTION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMBOL DIGIT MODALITIES TEST; SYMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPORTS; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 22544488071     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.17.2.237     Document Type: Article

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