Trail Making scores of normal and schizophrenic Ss are compared with measures of intellectual function, age, educational history and fine psychomotor adequacy. Defects observed among Trails scores for the abnormal group are clearly related to retardation manifest in other measured psychomotor performance, but do not relate closely to simultaneously present defects in “test-taking behaviors” nor to tests made of intellectual function.
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