Individual Neuropsychological Tests

Question 1

Wisconsin court sort WCST

Answer 1

• 6:6 to 80: 11
• assesses the ability to form abstract concepts and shift cognitive strategies in response to feedback
• for a stimulus cards and 64 response cards with different symbols
• you’re asked to sort the cards under four stimulus cards using a strategy that’s not disclosed
• after 10 correct answers the strategy is changed without warning
• scored in terms of trials required to identify the correct strategy
• sensitive to frontal lobe damage, and impaired performance is linked to alcoholism, autism, schizophrenia, depression, and malingrain

Question 2

Stroop color word association test

Answer 2

• assesses the degree to which an examinee can suppress habitual response in favor for unusual one
• cognitive flexibility, selective attention, and response inhibition
• sensitive to frontal lobe damage
  .- poor performance associated with ADHD, mania, depression, and schizophrenia

Question 3

Tower of London

Answer 3

• attention, memory, and executive functioning
• move disk one at a time so that they end up in a particular goal configuration
• poor performance linked to frontal, lobe damage, ADHD, autism and depression

Question 4

WMS 5

Answer 4

• older adolescents and adults
• six primary subtests and an optional brief cognitive status subtest for screening of cognitive impairment
• auditory memory, visual memory, visual working memory, immediate memory, and delayed memory
• co-warmed with the wais

Question 5

Mmse

Answer 5

• screen your for cognitive impairment for older adults
• used as a diagnostic tool for dementia But that’s not what it’s for
• six aspects of cognitive functioning: orientation, registration- immediate recall, attention and calculation, delayed. Recall, language, and visual construction

Max score is 30 and a score of 23 or 24 is used as a cutoff

• use with caution for those with limited English skills, communication disorder, or visual or hearing impairment
• extended form useful for individuals with subcortical dementia or age-related cognitive changes

Question 6

Glass glow coma scale

Answer 6

• level of consciousness following brain injury
• rape patient on three responses: visual response, eye-opening, best motor response and best verbal response

Score from 3 to 15 to lower the score, the more severe the injury

Score from 3:00 to 8:00 is an unconscious state

Question 7

Rancho scale of cognitive functioning revised

Answer 7

• measure of cognitive recovering during first weeks to months following a head injury