To assess whether the Human Figure Drawing Test provides an assessment of nonverbal cognitive maturity, correlations for 31 youngsters who ranged in age from 6–0 to 10–10 on the Human Figure Drawing Test and the Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQs of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Revised (WISC—R) were examined. Significant correlations were observed for each of the scales, but the value of .69 for drawings and WISC—R Performance IQs was significant, suggesting the assessment that these tests are largely nonverbal. Implications for the role of language were posited.
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