Block Design
General Overview
About Block Design
Block-design tasks ask a person to analyze a target pattern and reconstruct it from smaller colored units. Even when the materials look simple, the task draws on spatial parsing, planning, visual synthesis, and constant checking between the model and the built result.
This is one of the oldest and most recognizable visual-spatial traditions in psychological testing, especially in the Kohs and later Wechsler lines of assessment. It remained popular because it samples spatial organization in a concrete, observable way rather than only through verbal description.
Interpreters often compare block-design performance with visual-puzzle and matrix tasks. That contrast can help distinguish hands-on spatial construction from mental part-whole assembly and from abstract nonverbal rule detection.
This public version keeps the background and interpretive context visible while the interactive task remains locked.
Instructions
- Recreate the target pattern in your workspace using the block tiles.
- Click a tile to select, then click cells to place. Right-click to rotate. Ctrl+click to clear.
- Each item is timed. Faster correct answers earn more points.
- The test stops after two consecutive errors.
Format
- The target pattern appears on the left.
- Use the Palette below to select block tiles.
- Fill all cells in Your Workspace to submit.
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