Neuropsych Testing Flashcards
Luria-Nebraska Battery
Comprehensive Neuropsychological battery. 11 scales to help diagnose neurocognitive decline. Reading, writing, arithmetic, visual, memory, expressive and receptive language, motor, rhythm, tactile, intellectual function.
Halstead-Reitan Battery
Comprehensive Neuropsychological battery. Alternative to Luria-Nebraska to test for neurocognitive decline.
Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale
Tests IQ for adults
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Tests IQ for adults
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
Tests IQ for children
Weschsler Preschool & Performace Scale of Intelligence
Tests IQ for chlidren
Bayley Scale for Infant and Toddler Development
Tests IQ for children
Leiter International Performance Scale
Nonverbal IQ test
Test of Non-Verbal Intelligence (TONI-3)
Non-verbal IQ test
Comprehensvie Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (CTONI)
Nonverbal IQ test
Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test
Nonverbal IQ test
What is the purpose of an achievement test?
Assessments that measure a student’s acquired knowledge of skills in educational areas. Helps to identify discrepancy of IQ to achievement results to see if there is some outside factor like anxiety that is impairing IQ.
Woodcock-Johnson III NU Test
Tests achievement, lasts an hour and is given to anyone 2-90+ yo.
What does adaptive function test for?
Assesses for how well one succeeds in their environment. Walking, talking, getting dressed, hygiene, going to school/work, prepping a meal.
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale
Measure of self-sufficiency. For birth to 90 yo. Good for ID, autism, ADHD , and neurocognitive disorders. (adaptive function = ability to succeed in environment)
Stroop Color and Word Test
Executive Function. Ability to suppress interference from competing stimuli. Subjected timed on how many words and colors they name.
Benton Facial Recognition Test
Tests for Prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces )
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
Executive Function . 4 stimulus cards differ on variable of color, shape, and number. No instructions given to person taking the test. They are told ‘right/wrong’ and they learn the rule. Then the rule gets changed. Those with cognitive impairment will never learn the rule.
What do ‘continuous performance tests’ evaluate?
Assesses ability to sustain attention over etended periods and often with distraction.
Conner’s Continuous Performance Test
Test of attention , useful in ADHD.
Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA)
Test of attention, useful in ADHD.
Qb Test
Continuous performacne task + motion tracking analysis . (quarterbacks must continually perform and track motion throughout the whole game) .
California Verbal Learning Test
Tests for verbal memory. Subject reads aloud a shopping list of 16 items that are categorized. Subject assessed on recall and recognition of category.
Hopkins Verbal Learning Test
Test of Memory (verbbal)
Wechsler Memory Scale
Test of memory and learning
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
Test of language development and aphasia, specifically verbal comprehension. Indicates more broadly language, literacy, and cognitive deficits. Assess receptive vocabulary. in verbally handicapped subjects. Has 175 picture plates with 4 pictures on each plate. Subject points to picture most like the stimulus word read aloud by administrator.
Test of Language Development (TOLD)
Assess various aspects of language development and aphasia.
Boston Aphasia Diagnostic Test
Test of language development and aphasia
Western Aphasia Battery-Revised
Test of language development and aphasia.
Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency
Test of perceptual-motor function. Asses apsects of motor and perceptual integration. Ability to construct figures, copy images , draw images from emmory, match faces.
Beery-0Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration
Assess visual-motor skills. For those with special needs.Copy geometric figures arranges in ascending order of difficulty. 2-18 yo . You test results prior to and after MOTOR INTEGRATION THERAPY.
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure
Assesses visual-spatial, visual memory, planning. You copy a complex figure and then draw it from memory. Useful in brain damage and neurocognitive disorders.
Trail-making test
Test of executive function .
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Assesses for personality and emotional characteristics. Can also differentiate psychotic from nonpsychotic thinking.
Thematic Apperception Test
Projective test which is a type of personality test. Subject projects their own needs, fears ,desires, preoccupations onto image. What led up to this event?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Assesses personality test to ID personality structure and psychopathology. Used to assess malingering and factitiuous disordes through scores on validity scales. 567 y/no items.
When IQ testing is higher than functional testing, what could interfere?
- ADHD
- depression
- anxiety
- posttraumatic stress disorder
- psychosis
Behavioral Modifications to reduce aggression in ID
Antecedent manipulation
Extinction procedures
Noncontingent reinforcement
Leiter International Performance Scale
This nonverbal, language free test is used as a measure of intelligence in individuals who have difficulty in responding to traditional tests.
What is the CAM?
Confusion Assessment Method, good screener for delirium
