Tests - Psych Measurement

Bender Gestalt Test

a drawing task, copy presented symbols or figures

Bender gestalt test purpose

neurological deficits, cognitive impairment, and visual-motor integration issues

Boston naming test

confrontational naming task (name what they see), assesses aphasia and dementia

Californial verbal learning test

examiner reads a list, reads it 5 times, patient must repeat as many as they can remember, then distractor is introduced and they must repeat the original list

Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT)

The patient listens to a pre-recorded sequence of single-digit numbers (e.g., 5, 3, 2, 7) presented every few seconds, the patient must add the last number heard to the immediately preceding number

Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS)

focus deeply on isolated cognitive domains (language, memory, and attention, respectively)

RBANS measure

memory, visuospatial, language, attention, delayed memory

Raven’s Progressive Matrices

patient is shown a geometric visual pattern with a single piece missing from the corner or center, must identify the single piece that logically completes the matrix pattern

luria nebraska

comprehensive, standardized testing suite used to detect and localize organic brain damage and differentiate neurological impairments from psychiatric disorders