The ethical discrimination of the epileptic

The Kohs ethical discrimination test sharply differentiates between normal and epileptic subjects when they are paired for educational status and chronological age. The epileptic group as a whole make very low scores. There is a strong intimation that grand mal epilepsy impairs the moral judgment to a large degree. Epileptics have little ability in abstract reasoning, and tests of common sense elicit grossly inadequate responses. The Kohs test appears to be a measure of abstract intelligence as well as a test of ethical discrimination. If that assumption be true, the epileptic group may have had a double handicap in the test, being deficient both in general intelligence and in ethical discrimination. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Epilepsy · Psychiatry · Ethics in medical practice · Psychology · Social Psychology