CORNELL INDEX

A questionnaire of 101 items referring to neuropsychiatric and psychosomatic symptoms that can serve as a standardized psychiatric history and a guide to an interview and which, additionally, can statistically differentiate subjects with serious personal and psychosomatic disturbances.

CORNELL WORD FORM

A modification of the word association technique.  Subject selects one word of a pair of printed responses that is associated to the stimulus word.  Also contributes to a descriptive sketch of the subject’s adaptive mechanisms in a manner not easily apparent.

Both procedures take less than 5 minutes each, are self-administered, can be scored in 1 minute and are useful in a variety of clinical, educational, guidance, and research settings.   Developed and standardized for use in WWII, by Drs. Harold G. Wolff, Bela Mittelmann, and David Wechsler, they were recently revised and are now available from the original senior investigator.
Dr. Arthur Weider, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University.

These tests have been used in Europe, Asia and throughout the United States. Corporate America and various institutions have utilized the tests for selection and assessment. Since 1975, thousands of recruits for the New York Police Department have been examined. So too, have  the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Diagnostic and Counseling Services for Medical and Mental Health. More than 21, 000 high school and college students obtained career counseling with these procedures also. They are also available from his assistant and son, James Weider.

Buros Publication Tests in Print (Volume VII)

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