Assessment Tests Flashcards
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Halstead-Reitan Battery
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- Neuropsychological test originally desinged to assess organic brain damage
- Ten items including:
- Trail making test (visuomotor perception and motor speed)
- Critical flicker frequency test (visual perception)
2
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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
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- Intelligence test
- Used from age 2 to adulthood
- 120 items
3
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Wechsler Memory Scale
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- Screens for verbal and visual memory therefore yielding a memory quotient
- Good for memory syndromes e.g. Korsakoff’s
4
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Ravens Progressivve Matrices
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- Test of performance IQ
- Free from cultural or language bias
- General intelligence and visuospatial problem-solving
5
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National Adult Reading Test
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- Test of premorbid IQ
6
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Wisconsin Cart Sorting Test
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- Standard test of executive functions affected by frontal lobe lesions.
- Subjects sort stimulus cards of different colours, shapes and numbers into groups according to single principle.
7
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Rey-Osterrieth
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- Test of visual memory that involves asking the subject to copy a complex figure made of basic geometric shapes and then to draw it from memory
8
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Paired Associate Test
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- Test of verbal memory
9
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Digit Span
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- Relatively pure test of attention and working memory
- Normal is 7 +/- 2 depending on age and general intellectual ability - in the elderly 5 can be considered normal
- Reverse span is usually one or two less than forward
- Forms part of verbal subtests of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
10
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Stroop Test
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- Measures set shifting abilities and response inhibition
- Test of frontal function and selective attention ability
11
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Trail Making Test
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- Two parts
- Part A - Simple number sequence is used to join the dots
- Part B - alternating numbers and letters - more sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction
- Tests visuomotor tracing, attention, conceptualisation and set-shifting.
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The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
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- Test of visumotor coordination useful for both children (>3) and adults
- Usualy used in adults as a screening measure for organic dysfunction e.g. after head injury
