THE CLINICAL VALIDITY OF THE MINNESOTA PERCEPTO-DIAGNOSTIC TEST WITH ADULTS IN INDIA.

The article discusses the clinical validity of the Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test with adults in India. The Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic (MPD) test is supposed to measure perceptual distortion in terms of "a progressive index for degrees of rotation." This test is also considered to be "culture free, education, intelligence and reading ability, within limits, do not influence the results." The purpose of the present Investigation was to determine whether adults having organic brain damage, personality disturbance anti normals could be differentiated from each other on the basis of degrees of rotation as measured by the MPD test.