VISUAL RETENTION TEST PERFORMANCE IN CHILDREN

Abstract

THE VISUAL retention test is a for designs test devised for use with adult patients as a measure of immediate memory capacity which would utilize sensorimotor components different from those of the familiar auditory-vocal digit span and which could thus serve as a valuable supplement to the digit span in the clinical examination. The visual retention test has enjoyed a fair amount of clinical use, and the question has been raised by several workers whether it might not be employed as a psychodiagnostic device with school children, as well as with adults. The discussion in the original paper 1 on the shortcomings of the digit span as a test of immediate memory and of the desirability of utilizing other types of tests in the evaluation of the immediate memory capacity of adult patients applies with equal force to the diagnostic problems presented by children. Moreover, a retention test the

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