tests vs utility

Question 1

MMSE

Answer 1

cognitive screening

Question 2

CAMCOG

Answer 2

cognitive screening

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

premorbid IQ

Question 6

rivermead behavioural memory test

Answer 6

memory

Question 7

rey-osterrieth complex figure test

Answer 7

Visuo-spatial memory

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

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)

Question 14

thematic apperception test

Answer 14

personality

Question 15

paired associate learning test

Answer 15

verbal memory

Question 16

trail making

Answer 16

visuospatial and perceptuomotor speed

Question 17

digit span

Answer 17

working memory

Question 18

colour word interference test

Answer 18

frontal lobe

Question 19

stroop

Answer 19

frontal lobe

Question 20

tower test

Answer 20

frontal lobe

Question 21

Halstead-Reitan Battery

Answer 21

verbal fluency, designed as a tool to detect brain damage

Question 22

similarities and differences

Answer 22

abstraction

Question 23

FAS test

Answer 23

Verbal fluency