Recall of figure "A" of the Bender-Gestalt test among delinquents.
The Bender-Gestalt test was administered to 182 Israeli adolescent males: four groups of juvenile delinquents and two of nondelinquent high-school students. Each of the delinquent groups was administered one of the following versions: a standard administration with figure A first (n = 60), a change of sequence with figure A last (n = 22), a regular sequence with figure A changed to two adjacing circles (n = 20), and with figure A changed to two adjacent diamonds (n = 20). One nondelinquent group took the test under standard administration with figure A first (n = 30), and one took it with figure A last (n = 20). The results showed significantly low recall of the original figure A by delinquents when it appeared first. This phenomenon was related to both primary effect and the design depicted in figure A, with a greater influence of the latter. Difficulties in integration were suggested as inhibiting delinquents' recall.
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Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D001538:Bender-Gestalt Test; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept; D012691:Serial Learning