BCP Neuropsychological & Cognitive Tools 3

Question 1

On the Stroop Color-Word Test, the interference condition score primarily reflects which cognitive construct?

Accepted Answer

Response inhibition and selective attention

Answer

The Stroop interference condition requires suppressing the habitual reading response to name ink colors, measuring response inhibition and selective attention.

Question 2

Which instrument is specifically designed to assess attention across sustained, selective, alternating, and divided domains in a single battery?

Accepted Answer

Test of Everyday Attention (TEA)

Answer

The TEA was designed to measure multiple attentional components — sustained, selective, alternating, and divided — using ecologically grounded tasks.

Question 3

The Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT) FAS version requires the examinee to generate words beginning with F, A, and S in separate 60-second trials. This measures:

Accepted Answer

Phonemic fluency

Answer

The FAS COWAT measures phonemic (letter) fluency by asking examinees to generate words starting with specified letters rather than from semantic categories.

Question 4

Which score on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) BEST captures a patient's overall learning efficiency across all five trials?

Accepted Answer

Total learning score (sum of Trials 1–5)

Answer

The RAVLT total learning score (sum across Trials 1–5) reflects cumulative learning efficiency over repeated exposures to the word list.

Question 5

A clinician notes that a patient's RAVLT retroactive interference score is markedly elevated. This indicates the patient has trouble with:

Accepted Answer

Protecting previously learned material from new learning

Answer

High retroactive interference means that learning List B impairs recall of List A, reflecting vulnerability of stored material to subsequent learning.

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BCP Neuropsychological & Cognitive Tools 3