tests vs utility

Question 1

MMSE

Answer 1

cognitive screening

Question 2

CAMCOG

Answer 2

Cambridge cognitive examination: cognitive screening, cognitive and self-contained part of the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly (CAMDEX)
Standardised instrument for the diagnosis and grading of dementia.

Question 3

Weschler’s Adult intelligence

Answer 3

IQ test- verbal and performance scales

Question 4

Raven’s progressive matricies

Answer 4

non verbal intelligence (parietal lobe)

Question 5

NART - national adult reading test

Answer 5

Estimating premorbid intelligence levels of English-speaking patients with dementia

Reading test for irregularly spelt words - remarkably resistant to dementia

Question 6

rivermead behavioural memory test

Answer 6

Discriminates well patients with pre existing poor memory; tests everyday memory

Question 7

rey-osterrieth complex figure test

Answer 7

Visuo-spatial memory
Constructional praxis

Question 8

Wisconsin card sorting test

Answer 8

frontal lobe function (executive)

Question 9

Stroop test

Answer 9

frontal lobe, attentional conflict and disinhibition, set shifting

Colour and word test

Question 10

Stanford Binet

Answer 10

intelligence

Question 11

Benton Revised Visual retention Test

Answer 11

visual retention, visual memory, visuoconstructive ability (newly learned material- brain damage and dysfunction in children and adults)

Question 12

mmpi

Answer 12

Personality- 567 t/f questions with 9 “lie” scales

Question 13

Rorschach

Answer 13

projective test (forensic)

subjects’ perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both

Question 14

thematic apperception test

Answer 14

personality

Projective test, reveal individual’s perception of interpersonal relationships

Question 15

paired associate learning test

Answer 15

verbal memory

Assessment of associative and episodic memory in which the task is to learn a set of word-pairs. This is a verbal task, with stimuli presented auditorily, and responses spoken by the participant and scored automatically by the software.

Question 16

trail making

Answer 16

visuospatial and perceptuomotor speed

Visual attention and task switching. It consists of two parts in which the subject is instructed to connect a set of 25 dots as quickly as possible while still maintaining accuracy.
Sequencing

Question 17

digit span

Answer 17

working memory

Question 18

colour word interference test

Answer 18

frontal lobe

Question 19

tower test

Answer 19

frontal lobe

Participants are asked to preplan mentally a sequence of moves to match a start set of discs to a goal, and then to execute the moves one by one.

Question 20

Halstead-Reitan Battery

Answer 20

verbal fluency, designed as a tool to detect brain damage

Question 21

similarities and differences

Answer 21

abstraction

It is designed to measure the capability of a person in decision-making, problem-solving, reasoning. The test measures cognitive skills related to inductive and deductive reasoning as well as spatial visualisation.

Question 22

FAS test

Answer 22

Verbal fluency

Assesses phonemic verbal fluency by requesting an individual to orally produce words that begin with the letters F, A and S. Individuals are typically given 1 min to name as many words as possible beginning with one of the letters. The procedure is then repeated for the remaining two letters.

Question 23

What is devised by modifying BPRS

Answer 23

Neurobehavioural Rating Scale