Deck 28: Extension: B - Neuropsychological Assessment

Question 1

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the functions in each question with the appropriate test.
memory functions ___

A)Proteus Maze Test
B)Rey Complex-Figure Test
C)automobile puzzle
D)Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test

Answer 1

Rey Complex-Figure Test

Question 2

Identify two of the tests for intellectual and conceptual functions in the Boston Process Approach.

Answer 2

The tests are the Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test, the proverbs test, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV, Raven's Standard of Progressive Matrices, and the Shipley Institute of Living Scale.

Question 3

What are the particular challenges to neuropsychological testing that managed health care poses?

Answer 3

Due the current economic climate, clinicians are often asked to reduce the number of tests administered during a neuropsychological evaluation, to save on both cost of the assessments and time (to increase billing for more patients). Additionally, neuroimaging has become a very useful clinical tool, and some institutions may turn to that modality in an attempt to obtain faster results.

Question 4

What are Groth - Marnat's four suggestions for psychologists dealing with managed health care?

Question 5

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the item in each question with the appropriate test.
language ___

A)finger tapping
B)consonant trigrams test
C)Wide Range Achievement Test
D)cow-and-circle test

Question 6

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the item in each question with the appropriate test.
memory ___

A)finger tapping
B)consonant trigrams test
C)Wide Range Achievement Test
D)cow-and-circle test

Question 7

In the Boston Process Approach to neuropsychological testing, what tests are used to evaluate self - control and motor functions?

Question 8

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the item in each question with the appropriate test.
self - control ___

A)finger tapping
B)consonant trigrams test
C)Wide Range Achievement Test
D)cow-and-circle test

Question 9

Identify some factors that can make interpretation of neuropsychological tests difficult.

Question 10

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the item in each question with the appropriate test.
academic skills ___

A)finger tapping
B)consonant trigrams test
C)Wide Range Achievement Test
D)cow-and-circle test

Question 11

Why is neuropsychological testing particularly useful in cases of closed - head injuries?

Question 12

Name three difficulties with cutoff scores in neuropsychological test batteries.

Question 13

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the functions in each question with the appropriate test.
language functions ___

A)Proteus Maze Test
B)Rey Complex-Figure Test
C)automobile puzzle
D)Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test

Question 14

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the functions in each question with the appropriate test.
motor functions ___

A)Proteus Maze Test
B)Rey Complex-Figure Test
C)automobile puzzle
D)Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test

Question 15

What three factors have enhanced the rate of change in clinical neuropsychology in the past 15 to 20 years?

Question 16

Identify four of the tests for memory functions in the Boston Process Approach.

Question 17

What are some of the difficulties in creating "norms" for any test of brain damage?

Question 18

Discuss how right - versus left - hemisphere damage would likely affect performance and verbal scores on the Weschler Scales.

Question 19

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the functions in each question with the appropriate test.
conceptual functions ___

A)Proteus Maze Test
B)Rey Complex-Figure Test
C)automobile puzzle
D)Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test

Question 20

Identify four of the tests for language functions in the Boston Process Approach.

Question 21

Why is postinjury intelligence testing not necessarily useful?

Question 22

Name six frequently used categories of neuropsychological testing, as identified by Zillmer and Spiers.

Question 23

What is the "problem of effort"? Why does it pose difficulty for neuropsychologists?
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