The Bender-Gestalt (B-G) scores of 69 adolescents enrolled in a residential treatment center were analyzed for the effects of stress upon perceptual-motor functioning. All Ss had been tested twice with the B-G, once at pre-placement (designated the stressful condition) and again several months following enrollment. The results indicated that Ss tended to make fewer errors on the second administration. Only in those Ss diagnosed as brain-impaired, however, did this difference reach conventional levels of statistical significance.
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