tests vs utility Flashcards
MMSE
cognitive screening
CAMCOG
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.
Weschler’s Adult intelligence
IQ test- verbal and performance scales
Raven’s progressive matricies
non verbal intelligence (parietal lobe)
NART - national adult reading test
Estimating premorbid intelligence levels of English-speaking patients with dementia
Reading test for irregularly spelt words - remarkably resistant to dementia
rivermead behavioural memory test
Discriminates well patients with pre existing poor memory; tests everyday memory
rey-osterrieth complex figure test
Visuo-spatial memory
Constructional praxis
Wisconsin card sorting test
frontal lobe function (executive)
Stroop test
frontal lobe, attentional conflict and disinhibition, set shifting
Colour and word test
Stanford Binet
intelligence
Benton Revised Visual retention Test
visual retention, visual memory, visuoconstructive ability (newly learned material- brain damage and dysfunction in children and adults)
mmpi
Personality- 567 t/f questions with 9 “lie” scales
Rorschach
projective test (forensic)
subjects’ perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both
thematic apperception test
personality
Projective test, reveal individual’s perception of interpersonal relationships
paired associate learning test
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.
trail making
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
digit span
working memory
colour word interference test
frontal lobe
tower test
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.
Halstead-Reitan Battery
verbal fluency, designed as a tool to detect brain damage
similarities and differences
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.
FAS test
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.
What is devised by modifying BPRS
Neurobehavioural Rating Scale
