Psicologia: teoria e prática
Print version ISSN 1516-3687
Abstract
ROSA, Helena Rinaldi and ALVES, Irai Cristina Boccato. Bender test (adaptation Koppitz) and R-2: non verbal children intelligence test. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2012, vol.14, n.1, pp.153-167. ISSN 1516-3687.
This research intended to verify if there are relationship between the g factor of intelligence, assessed by the R-2 non verbal of intelligence test and children's visual-motor organization, measured by the test of Bender, adaptation of Koppitz. The sample was composed by 538 children of both sexes, students from Assis (SP), whose ages ranged from 4 years and 9 months to 11 years and 9 months, distributed in two groups according to the proportion of students enrolled on state and private schools. Results indicated a significant correlation of -0.702 between the total of scores of the tests. This correlation is negative, because in R-2 performance is scored by success and in Bender by mistakes. Although they are different abilities, it was found relationship between the general factor of the intelligence and the children's visual-motor organization. This correlation had already been pointed by Koppitz.
Keywords : intelligence measures; perceptual motor organization; R-2 non verbal test of intelligence for children; childhood development; psychological tests.