Neuropsychological & Cognitive Tools Flashcards
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On the Stroop Color-Word Test, the interference condition score primarily reflects which cognitive construct?
Answer: Response inhibition and selective attention
The Stroop interference condition requires suppressing the habitual reading response to name ink colors, measuring response inhibition and selective attention.
Which instrument is specifically designed to assess attention across sustained, selective, alternating, and divided domains in a single battery?
Answer: Test of Everyday Attention (TEA)
The TEA was designed to measure multiple attentional components — sustained, selective, alternating, and divided — using ecologically grounded tasks.
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:
Answer: Phonemic fluency
The FAS COWAT measures phonemic (letter) fluency by asking examinees to generate words starting with specified letters rather than from semantic categories.
Which score on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) BEST captures a patient's overall learning efficiency across all five trials?
Answer: Total learning score (sum of Trials 1–5)
The RAVLT total learning score (sum across Trials 1–5) reflects cumulative learning efficiency over repeated exposures to the word list.
A clinician notes that a patient's RAVLT retroactive interference score is markedly elevated. This indicates the patient has trouble with:
Answer: Protecting previously learned material from new learning
High retroactive interference means that learning List B impairs recall of List A, reflecting vulnerability of stored material to subsequent learning.
The Continuous Performance Test (CPT) is primarily used in neuropsychological assessment to measure:
Answer: Sustained and selective attention with vigilance
CPTs measure the ability to maintain attention and vigilance over time while responding selectively to targets and inhibiting responses to non-targets.
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of the Grooved Pegboard Test in a neuropsychological battery?
Answer: Measuring fine motor dexterity and psychomotor speed
The Grooved Pegboard requires inserting keyed pegs into randomly oriented holes, measuring fine motor dexterity and speed for each hand separately.