The examinee is given a semantic or initial letter category and asked to produce as many words as possible in 60 seconds. This subtest measures verbal productivity through the ability to generate words within specific semantic and initial letter categories. The examinee selects the designs from a set of cards and places the cards on a grid in the same location as previously shown. A delayed task assesses long-term visuospatial memory. This subtest measures spatial memory for novel visual material.
The examinee copies a series of finger motions demonstrated by the examiner as quickly as possible. This subset measures the examinee's finger dexterity, motor speed, and rapid motor programming.
The examinee copies figures displayed in the response booklet. In addition the subtests are no longer aggregated into overall domain scores like the previous version or the WISC , but rather each subtest is considered to stand alone.
Psychology Wiki Explore. Animal defensive behavior Kinesis Animal escape behavior Cooperative breeding Sexual cannibalism Cannibalism zoology Animal aggressive behavior. Recent Blogs Community portal forum. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. There are two scores available for recall on the Narrative Memory subtest.
The NM Free Recall Total Score is a process score that is the total number of details recalled during the initial recall of the stories, without the cued responses. For this score, the number of details recalled during free recall is summed. Therefore, each detail has a maximum value of 1 point. If the child recalls a detail freely, he or she is awarded 2 points for the detail and no follow-up question is asked. If the child does not recall a detail, a cued question is asked. If, after the cued question, the child recalls the information, 1 point is awarded.
No points are awarded if they don't recall it at all. Then the points awarded for each detail across all age-appropriate items are summed. After selecting the subtests you plan to administer, determine if there are any delay times required for memory subtests. If delay times are required, place the immediate memory tasks early in administration to allow for adequate time to pass before administering the delayed tasks. Be careful about which subtests you administer during the time lag to ensure nothing you administer will interfere with the construct being assessed in the memory task.
Likewise, Affect Recognition may interfere with the delayed recall of faces in Memory for Faces. When determining subtest order, try to maintain interest and motivation by switching between tasks assessing different domains.
In addition, a suggested administration order for each referral battery. On Theory of Mind and Geometric Puzzles, scores change from percentile ranks to scaled scores across ages. Neuropsychological tests are not designed to obtain a normal distribution of scores. They are designed to measure constructs that often are not normally distributed in the general population, particularly across age groups, but that are indicative of specific brain-behavior relationships or of atypical development.
In addition, the distribution of scores varies across ages as the majority of children master a skill. The degree to which a distribution is skewed will determine if scaled scores may be generated. Measures that have a slight to moderate degree of skewing may still be converted to a scaled score metric; however, with highly skewed distributions using the scaled score metric is inappropriate.
On Theory of Mind, the distribution of children begins to skew heavily toward nearly perfect scores by age 7. Therefore, at age 7 the Theory of Mind Total score switches from a scaled score, to a percentile rank, to better represent the change in the distribution of scores for that age.
The use of digital clocks has greatly increased over the years. If I am testing a child who uses digital clocks, can I give Clocks? The use of digital clocks has increased; however, children are still taught how to read analog clocks and it is a required task in many school districts in the math curriculum around second grade.
The familiarity of clocks in children of various ages is reflected in the norms. While it may be true that performance on clocks is lower now than in previous generations of children though this has not been studied the norms behind the Clocks subtest reflects the current ability of children between 7 and If you are testing a child who has never learned analog clocks or has no access to analog clocks, you should not use the Clocks subtest.
Choose an alternate subtest to measure the construct of interest. Neuropsychological tests are note designed to obtain a normal distribution of scores. They are designed to measure constructs that often are not normally distributed in the general population, particularly across age groups, but that are indicative of specific brain-behavior relationships or indicative of atypical development.
Thus, in the normal population, variability is very low with the majority of cases falling into the normal range. Children with clinical diagnoses have greater variability in scores, thus increasing the reliability. See chapter 1 of the Clinical and Interpretive Manual for more information on the psychometric properties of neuropsychological assessments. Count a design as correct, even when the child rotates the card.
Do not track the rotation of the cards within the design. It is not an unusual or uncommon behavior for a child to rotate the cards within the grid and is not clinically indicative of an underlying disorder.
A separate score was not computed for this behavior as it occurs frequently in normally developing children. I am not sure what to record for the sorts on Animal Sorting? Is a sort only four cards, or are there 8 cards per sort? Each sort made by the child consists of eight cards sorted into two groups of four cards each.
For recording purposes, only four cards are recorded and used to assess total correct, repeated sorts, and novel sorts. Each sort by the child is recorded on a single line on the record form.
To record, after each sort, find the group of four cards containing the zebras card.
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