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D I Templer

Publications and source records attributed to D I Templer.

At least 73 records · Page 4Linked to original sources
PubMed1979

Reported sleep: needed minus obtained sleep, family resemblance, and age.

For a normal population from 13 to 89 yr. of age there was a correlation of .02 between age and sleep obtained, -.07 between age and sleep needed, and -.33 (p less than .01) between age and sleep needed minus sleep obtained. Also, significant family resemblance was found for all three of the above sleep variables.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

The Watson and the Hovey MMPI scales: do they measure organicity or "functional" psychopathology?

Both the Hovey MMPI Scale of Organicity and the Watson MMPI Sc-O Scale, developed to differentiate schizophrenics from organics, demonstrated substantial association with psychopathology as measured by the MMPI regular clinical and validity scales. These findings occurred with both penitentiary inmates and psychiatric patients. For the Sc-O Scale the correlations with the regular MMPI Scales for the patients tended to be higher than for the prisoners, presumably because of the greater psychopathology present in the former. With the psychiatric patients there was actually a significant inverse relationship between the organicity direction of Sc-O and Hovey Scales, a finding that had been reported in a previous study. The inference from these findings was that MMPI-based organicity scales probably have seriously limited utility, especially in differentiation between organicity and "functional" psychopathology.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Levodopa in Huntingtons chorea.

Sixteen patients with Huntington's chorea were treated for periods as long as 8 months with levodopa. The condition of none of the patients improved; in fact, there appeared to be an exacerbation of chorea and dementia in addition to undesirable behavioural changes. Therefore, future use of levodopa in these patients is not warranted. The postulated association of low homovanillic acid values in cerebrospinal fluid and favourable response to levodopa therapy was not borne out.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

The intelligence of rapists.

IQs of rapists were compared to IQs of nonrapist prisoners convicted of violent crimes and nonrapist prisoners convicted of nonviolent crimes. Subjects were 136 male convicted felons in the Kentucky State Penitentiary. Determination of violent vs. nonviolent crimes other than rape was made upon consultation with a Kentucky Commonwealth Attorney. The results revealed significantly lower IQs for rapists compared to nonrapists convicted of violent crimes and compared to heterogeneous nonrapist convicts. The present research supports the findings of Karacan and co-workers, indicating a general tendency for rapists to have lower IQs than other convicted prisoners.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

Alcoholism, cigarette smoking, coffee drinking and extraversion.

Alcoholic patients smoked significantly more cigarettes and drank more cups of coffee than nonalcoholic psychiatric patients even when the higher extraversion scores of the alcoholics, as measured by the Eysenck Personality Inventory, were statistically controlled.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

Relationship between WISC verbal-performance discrepancies and motor and psychomotor abilities of children with learning disabilities.

Thirty 9- to 14-yr.-old boys with learning disabilities were divided into three WISC IQ groups: High Verbal-Low Performance, Verbal equal to Performance, and High Performance-Low Verbal. All Ss were given a battery of motor and psychomotor tests. WISC IQ Verbal-Performance discrepancy was not a good predictor of motor and psychomotor learning disabilities.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

The MMPI in the differential diagnosis of organicity vs. schizophrenia: empirical findings and a somewhat different perspective.

Watson's MMPI Scale for differentiating organicity from schizophrenia was found to correlate significantly with the MMPI Schizophrenia Scale and was found not to differentiate significantly better than the Schizophrenia Scale for the two patient groups under consideration. Watson's general approach of using personality measures for such differential diagnosis was lauded, although doubt that his scale is superior to other methods of diagnosing schizophrenia was expressed.

Brain Damage, Chronic↗