The Bender Gestalt Test: A Test Of Memory

2. General overview
The Bender Gestalt Test is used to evaluate visual maturity, visual motor integration skills, style of responding, reaction to frustration, ability to correct mistakes, planning and organisational skills and motivation (Wilson & Reschly, 1996). This test has also been used as a test of memory thus to investigate the short-term visual memory ability of children and adolescents with severe psychiatric disorders (Prakash, 2010). Copying figures requires fine motor skills, the ability to discriminate between visual stimuli, the capacity to integrate visual skills with motor skills and the ability to shift attention from the original design to what is being drawn (Brannigan & Decker, 2004).
The Bender test should not be administered to an individual with severe visual impairment unless his or her vision has been adequately corrected with eyeglasses. The test should not be given to an examinee with a severe motor impairment, as the impairment would affect his or her ability to draw the geometric figures correctly. The test scores might thereby be distorted (Brannigan, Decker & Madsen, 2004).
3. Administration
Administration of the Bender-Gestalt II comprises of two phases that

This normative base was especially important because such factors as age and development are crucial to the interpretation of scores. The scoring of Bender-Gestalt II was designed to assess visual-motor integration functioning. Thus, it is helpful in differentiating the neurological, learning and psychological problems. Basically when interpreting the test scores for the Bender-Gestalt test II of copy and recall phase have been converted to standard scores and percentile scores, the mean is 100 and standard deviation is 15. The classification of scores ranges from 145-160 (extremely advanced or high) to 40-54 (extremely low or moderately delayed) (Brannigan et al.,