1. DEFINITION: • The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test was developed by Lauretta Bender M.D. in 1938. • The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test is also referred to as the Bender-Gestalt Test. • It is a psychological assessment instrument used to evaluate visual-motor functioning and visual perception skills in both children and adults . • Scores on the test are used to identify possible organic brain damage and the degree maturation of the nervous system. Lauretta Bender 2. PURPOSE: The test is used to evaluate - Visual maturity - Visual motor integration skills - Style of responding - Reaction to frustration - Ability to correct mistakes - Planning and organizational skills - Motivation - Perceptual discrimination ability - Fine motor skills The test is …show more content…
Bizarre doodling This involves adding peculiar components to the drawing that have no relationship to the original Bender Gestalt figure. Closure difficulty This occurs when the examinee has difficulty closing open spaces on a figure, or connecting various parts of the figure. This results in a gap in the copied figure. Cohesion This involves drawing a part of a figure larger or smaller than shown on the original figure and out of proportion with the rest of the figure. This error may also include drawing a figure or part of a figure significantly out of proportion with other figures that have been drawn. Collision This involves crowding the designs or allowing the end of one design to overlap or touch a part of another design. Contamination This occurs when a previous figure, or part of a figure, influences the examinee in adequate completion of the current figure. For example, an examinee may combine two different Bender Gestalt figures. Fragmentation This involves destroying part of the figure by not completing or breaking up the figures in ways that entirely lose the original