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The DAPA category of colour: The DAPA describes colour in the presence or absence
of 9 basic hues within each section examined: Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Brown,
Purple, White and Black. Only the media is scored, not the paper.
Intensity is coded seperately as high, neutral or low.
Measurements of Line from the literature analysis
There were more different categories of line than any other, some were mixed up with
shape, the definition of which was ambiguous. No differences were shown between
normal controls and schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease, but there were suggestions that
physiognomic difficulties in control would probably affect results although some
definitions were understood emotionally rather than visually and some were visual
transformations of expected symptomatology. The studies which attempted to interpret
the patients intentions through assessing the purpose of the line showed the most
variable reliability and results. The definition of line quality, which typically rated
internal relations within pictures; i.e. lines were rated relative to other lines within the
picture, was probably easiest to compare objectively because people tend to judge the
relative extremes. It seems reasonable to suppose that a simple note of internal variability
of line of the picture would be comparable with that of another picture and would be
difficult to invest with meaning.
The DAPA Category of Line: The DAPA describes 'Line' using 3 levels of quality:
Heavy, varied and thin. Development of the measure modified the coding method slightly
from the first study and line is now coded separately as drawn or painted. The DAPA
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