title: What ever happened to the norms for the Matching Familiar Figures Test?
abstract: The Matching Familiar Figures Test is used almost exclusively to assess cognitive tempo, e.g., impulsive-reflective, etc., in subjects. Although norms for this test were published by Salkind in 1978, a comprehensive review of the literature on cognitive tempo covering 1979 through 1984 showed only 8% of the reviewed studies used the norms. The problems associated with the failure to use norms, most notably, the inability to generalize findings from one sample to another, are covered.
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011340:Problem Solving; D011930:Reaction Time; D012016:Reference Values