Neuropsychological tests Flashcards
What is the digit span test?
What domain does it cover?
What conditions do impairments indicate?
Individual repeats numbers forwards and backwards.
Assesses auditory attention, short-term auditory memory and concentration
Indicates ADHD or dementias
What is Trails A Test?
What domain does it cover?
What do impairments indicate?
Connect numbered circles in order.
Evaluates visual search, speed of processing and mental flexibility.
Attention
Attention deficits or brain injury
What is the Boston naming test?
What problems does it identify?
Name drawings of objects
Identifies aphasia and can detect naming difficulties in various neurological conditions
What is the verbal fluency test?
What do impairments indicate?
Produce as many words as possible from a category in a set time
Indicate frontal lobe dysfunctions
What tests cover language?
Boston naming test
Verbal fluency
What is the Wechsler memory scale?
Evaluates immediate and delayed memory functions
What is the Ray Auditory Verbal Learning test?
Participants learn, recall and recognise a list of words across multiple trials
What tests cover memory?
Wechsler memory scale
Ray Auditory Verbal Learning Test
What is the Roy-Osterrieth Complex Figure test?
What does it help evaluate?
copy a complex geometric figure and then draw it from memory. It measures visuo-constructive abilities, visual memory, and executive functions
Evaluates conditions like Alzheimers or non-verbal learning disability
What test covers visuospatial skills?
Ray-Osterrieth Complex Figure
What is the Wisconsin Card Sort testt?
What do deficits indicate?
Match cards based on rules they deduce
Frontal lobe dysfunction
What is the stroop test?
What conditions impact performance>
Name colours of words when the word meaning and colour are incongruent
Performance may be impacted by anxiety, depression or brain injuries
What is the trail B test?
What do impairments indicate?
Participants connect alternating numbers and letters.
Impairments may indicate frontal lobe dysfunction
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence test?
IQ test assessing verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed.
What is the national adult reading test?
Estimates premorbid intellectual functioning by asking participants to read irregular words aloud
What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence scale?
Measures cognitive abilities across five factors:
1. fluid reasoning
2. knowledge
3. quantitative reasoning
4. visual-spatial processing
5. working memory
Which tests cover executive function?
Wisconsin Card Sort test
Stroop test
Trails B test
What tests cover intelligence?
Wechsler Adult intelligence test
National adult reading test
Stanford-Binet Intelligence scale
What is the Thematic Apperception test?
Create stories based on ambiguous pictures. Can be a tool to undercover hdiden emotions or traumas
WHat is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
long-form questionnaire assessing various psychological conditions and personality structures
What is the sixteen personality factor questionnaire?
When is it used?
Assesses 16 primary personality traits that converge into five global factors. Used for personality assessment in clinical, counselling, and employment settings.
What is the NEO personality inventory?
Measures the ‘Big Five’ traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
What is the Esyenck personality test?
Assesses three major domains:
Extraversion-introversion
Neuroticism-stabilitity
Psychoticism
