Minnesota Paper Form Board Test Explained

Minnesota Paper Form Board Test
Purpose:	tests imagery capacity

Minnesota Paper Form Board Test is said to test “imagery capacity”,^[1] “spatial visualization”,^[2] “mental visualizationskills” ^[3] “part–whole relationship skills” ^[4] and “the ability of anindividual to visualize and manipulate objects in space”.^[5] The test consists of five figures and one of the figures displayed in disarranged parts. The subject has to decide which of the figures displays the pieces joined together.

External links

Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board Test instructions and sample problems can be found in Appendix D (page 107) of

• http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/ir/bitstream/1840.16/4379/1/etd.pdf

Short descriptions:

• http://www.jdentaled.org/cgi/reprint/65/9/874.pdf
• Book: Practice of Educational Evaluation . 9788126113293 . N . Narayan B. . R . Vashist S. . Anmol Publications Pvt. .

Inessential information around the test:

• Book: Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment. 4: Industrial and organizational assessment. Jay C. Thomas. Michel Hersen. Muchinsky, P.M.. Mechanical aptitude and spatial ability testing. John Wiley and Sons. Hoboken, NJ. 2004. 978-0-471-41614-2. 26. https://books.google.com/books?id=AqxvZJtYknEC&q=%22Minnesota%20Paper%20Form%20Board%22&pg=PA26.

Notes and References

1. Scanning visual mental images: A window on the mind . Denis, M. . Kosslyn, SM . amp . Cahiers de psychologie cognitive . 18 . 4 . 452 . 1999 . Association pour la diffusion des recherches en sciences cognitives . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110719205432/http://wjh-www.harvard.edu/~kwn/Kosslyn_pdfs/1999Denis_CurrPsycholCog18_ScanningVisualMentalImages.pdf . 2011-07-19.
2. Book: The Cambridge handbook of visuospatial thinking. Individual differences in spatial abilities. Priti Shah . Akira Miyake. Cambridge University Press. 2005. 978-0-521-80710-4. 145. https://books.google.com/books?id=m91B8zm_1qgC&q=%22spatial%20visualization%20%28form%20board%29%22&pg=PA145 . Hegarty, M. . Waller, E. . amp .
3. 10.1.1.89.9200. Knowing and Learning to Design New Directions in Design Cognition: Studies of Representation and Recall.
4. http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/12/4/432.pdf
5. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-09-21 . 2011-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110717230045/http://www.vocationalassessments.com/maps/704287144.pdf . dead .