Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board Test
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content: The Psychological Corporation
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content: The Minnesota Paper Form Board Test was designed to test “imagery capacity”, “spatial visualization”, “mental visualization skills”, “part–whole relationship skills”, and ability “to visualize and manipulate objects in space”. It consists of five figures and one figure in disarranged parts. The subject must decide which figure displays the pieces joined together. The test was developed by Rensis Likert (1903-1981) and William H. Quasha (1912-1996) in the 1930s. Linkert was an organizational and social psychologist with a PhD from Columbia University who, having worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture during World War II, formed the Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan in 1946. William Howard Quasha was an industrial psychologist, mechanical engineer, and lawyer.
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content: This copy of the revised test, from the 1940s, was owned by Dr. Roger W. Sperry.
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content: Ref: W. H. Quasha and R. Likert, “The revised Minnesota paper form board test,” Journal of Educational Psychology 28 (1937): 197–204.
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content: “William H. Quasha, Manilla Lawyer, 80,” New York Times (May 19, 1996), p. 35.
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content: “Rensis Likert, Founder of Social Study Group,” New York Times (Sept. 4, 1981), p. A12.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Norma Sperry
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0302.17.23
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content: 1999.0302.17.23
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content: 1999.0302
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content: Test, Psychological
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content: paper (overall material)