BVRT

 Test of Visual Perception and Visual Memory

 Focal Brain disease –those who are unable to identify or
remember visually presented material without basic
visual impairments.

 Binet and Simon included memory for design test in

intelligence test.
 Figure drawing is central to neurological testing. Because of their
sensitivity to many kinds of organic diseases. It measures both visual
perception and memory.
 The task is simple
 Require no special instrumentation.
 Independent of specific verbal knowledge.
 Execution and performance of the task correlate with cerebral
function and educational achievement.
 Arthur Benton developed this test in 1945 and it was revised in
1955.
 It has increased number of designs in the revised version.
 Over the years the test has been developed into clinical and research
instrument to assess
 Visual Perception
 Visual Memory
 Visio-constructive abilities
 Test proved better than other tests for differentiating the attention
difficulties that are characteristic of many psychiatrically and
neurologically impaired patients.
 Testhas three alternative and almost equivalent forms C, D and E
consist of 10 designs each.
 Most of the designs have three figures, i.e. two major and one
peripheral figure making the designs particularly sensitive to problem
of visual neglect.
 Four alternative methods of administration A, B, C, and D.
 Easy administration in variety of settings
 Material consists of stimulus booklet and manual
 Requires 5 minutes to administer.
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 Who can use the test

User should have experience and training in administration

and interpretation.
Culture friendly
Graduate in psychological assessment
Should be familiar with standards of psychological testing.
Consultation of scoring with experienced person is useful.
 Administration methods

Three Forms C D E are used in administration

Administration A B C D
A 10 sec exposure
B 5 sec exposure
C Copy the design
D 10 sec exposure and 15 sec wait before reproducing
the design
 BVRT SCORING
 Scoring is
 Objective and based on explicit principles.
 Performance is described by two scores.
 Number correct score i.e., Number of correct reproductions. It gives
examinee’ overall level of performance. (Inter-scorer agreement has been
found to be very high for the overall score and the majority of error
categories).
 Number error score provides information about the frequency of specific
types of errors made by the examinee. Error types correlate differentially
with specific diseases.
 NUMBER CORRECT SCORE

 Design is judged on all-or-none basis. If the reproduction contains no error.

 Six major types of errors with 56 categories.
 Omission
 Distortion
 Rotation
 Perseveration
 Misplacements
 Size error
 Normative data applies to all three forms of test, which are considered to
have equal level of difficulty.
 Different researches show that C form is slightly easier and certain others
that there is not much difference between forms.
 Performance on all three forms correlate substantially with intelligence level.
 BVRT correlation with various measures of intelligence ranges from .46
to .71. (all research in 60’s and 70’s)
 Qualitative characteristics of Performance

 Rotation, preservations, distortions the relative size of figure

and in their spatial relationships, fragmentation of figures,
and reduplication all reflect disturbance in visual perception
and memory.
 Tremulousness, Sketchiness, difficulty in drawing acute
angles or inability to reproduce overlapping figures are
believed to be distinctive feature of organicity.