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omissions, distortions or additions of elements (38), although the same type of departure
from reality (evidence of faulty recall) was more marked in Alzheimer's disease than in
controls (36 or 35). The displacement variable showed significant differences between
left brain damaged patients and normal controls or right brain damaged patients (35), also
between a patient group partitioned 3 ways (33): (a) non retarded schizophrenic from
retarded schizophrenics; (b) profound from other grades of mental retardation; and
between acute and chronic schizophrenia.
Summary: The polarisation of representation of reality and logic between controls and
organic brain damage seems to be supported by findings of no differences between
schizophrenics, other patients and controls on corresponding indices. It is thus
reasonable to suppose that the results for Alzheimer's disease, as it affects the brain, may
share some of the qualities of organic brain damage. Displacement of main images seems
to strongly indicate general abnormality.
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Reliability: 11 experimental studies, 2 reliability studies and 1 validity study generated
36 variables which were grouped between two subjective, one objective content
subcategory, and one formal subcategory. There were 6 variables between 6 studies
which gave item reliabilities and only one unreliable variable in the table. Reliable
subcategories were: coverage of the paper (49, 44, 48, 21, 75, 35, 38, 36); relations
between the main elements (3, 35, 61); presence or absence of perspective or indicators
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