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The present study was carried out to correlate muscular fitness (as measured by Kraus-Weber Tests) in Indian school children with their intelligence quotient (as measured by Porteus Maze Test). These tools have been tried and tested successfully in previous studies, don't require sophisticated equipment and are easier to administer than traditional tests like EMG (for muscular fitness) and Wechsler Tests (for intelligence quotient). The present study found a significant positive correlation between intelligence quotient and muscular fitness. Failures in Kraus-Weber Tests tend to have a lower Intelligence Quotient and vice versa.
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Child , Chi-Square Distribution , Humans , Electromyography/methods , Intelligence Tests/methods , Muscle Strength/physiology , Physical Fitness , Schools , StudentsSubject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Depression , Intelligence Tests/methods , Parkinson Disease/pathologyABSTRACT
La prueba Matrices Coloreadas (Escala especial) ha sido especialmente adaptada por su autor para niños de 5 a 11 años de edad. El presente artículo analiza: 1) La importancia de considerar las respuestas erróneas en la misma, desde que su probabilidad de aparición (5/6) es mayor que la de la respuesta correcta (Burnbaum, 1968; Bock, 1972); 2) La idea de consideraria como prueba con influencias "culturalmente reducidas" (Cultural reduced). Se presentan los resultados de un estudio realizado en la Argentina con 790 alumnos entre 4,0 años y 11,5 años, donde se analizan el puntaje total y el puntaje por serie. A través de un análisis de variancia múltiple se encontró que, tanto la edad como las series y la interaccción entre ambas tienen influencia estadísticamente significativa sobre las variaciones de los puntajes. Además, se presentan nuevas normas de evaluacion
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Humans , Male , Female , Child, Preschool , Child , Psychology, Child , Intelligence Tests/methods , Analysis of Variance , Argentina , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
En este trabajo se presentan nuevas normas percentilares del Test de Dominós de Anstey correspondientes a sujetos argentinos residentes en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Esta prueba fue administrada a una muestra de 2148 sujetos de ambos sexos, cuyas edades oscilaban entre los 12 y 30 años. Fueron obtenidos los rangos percentilares para los diferentes grupos de edad (12-13, 14-15, 16-17,18-30) y para la población general. Finalmente, se aplicó una análisis de variancia simple para estudiar la influencia de la edad sobre los puntajes obtenidos en el test
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Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Adolescent , Intelligence Tests/methods , Analysis of VarianceABSTRACT
Thirty children [16 males and 14 females] whose ages were ranging from 7 to 9 years, and who satisfied the diagnostic criteria for Attention deficit hyperativity disorder [ADHD] according to the DSM-III-R classification, were subjected to I.Q. assessment, electroencephalographic evaluation, visual and auditory evoked potentials testing. Thirty normal children of matched age and sex were subjected to evoked potential studies as controls. The study demonstrated EEG changes in 50% of cases in the form of disorganized background activity [slowing in 11 cases and amplitude depression in 3 cases], slowing [focal in 4 cases and generalized asynchronous in 9 cases], and epileptiform activity [focal in 2 cases and generalized in 7 cases]. The result of the visual and auditory evoked potentials testing demonstrated no statistically significant differences from normal. However the latter are still considered valuable tools in assessing the integrity of both the visual and auditory pathways. The study also demonstrated a positive correlation between the presence of epileptiform activities in EEG and the border line ADHD [I.Q.: 68-83]