NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY:
RELATIONSHIP OF BRAIN
TO BEHAVIOR, COGNITION, AND EMOTION
TWO BRANCHES:
COGNITIVE
CLINICAL
1. COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
RESEARCH ON BRAIN
EXPERIMENTS OF NATURE
LURIA AND HEAD INJURIES
BRENDA MILNER, H.M., HIPPOCAMPUS
2. CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
REHABILITATION AND ASSESSMENT
HEAD INJURY
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE --
3RD EDITION (WAIS-III)
VERBAL SUBTESTS
VOCABULARY
SIMILARITIES
INFORMATION
ETC.
VERBAL IQ
PERFORMANCE SUBTESTS
OBJECT ASSEMBLY
BLOCK DESIGN
PICTURE ARRANGEMENT
ETC.
PERFORMANCE IQ
COMBINATION OF VERBAL IQ & PERFORMANCE IQ
= FULL-SCALE IQ
IQ MEAN = 100 STANDARD DEVIATION = 15
IQ
SCORE
100 50TH PERCENTILE
(AVERAGE)
70 2ND PERCENTILE
(BORDERLINE RETARDED)
130 98TH PERCENTILE
(VERY BRIGHT)
145 ABOVE 99TH PERCENTILE
(VERY, VERY BRIGHT)
NORMS: REPRESENTATIVE SCORES
OF COMPARABLE INDIVIDUALS
EXAMPLE:
FRED GOT 13 CORRECT.
THE AVERAGE SCORE WAS 11 (NORM).
FRED SCORED ABOVE AVERAGE.
TEST RESULTS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT NORMS.
PROBLEMS OF USING INAPPROPRIATE NORMS
FOR IQ TESTS
-- LANGUAGE
-- CULTURE
-- AGE
-- DISABILITY
THE WAIS-III AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
DIFFERENTIAL DEFICIT
DISCREPANCY BETWEEN PAST ACHIEVEMENTS
AND PRESENT SCORES
OTHER NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
USUALLY SIMPLE FOR UNIMPAIRED PEOPLE
LANGUAGE
VERBAL FLUENCY TEST
REPETITION TEST
OBJECT NAMING
INSTRUCTIONS
APHASIA
MEMORY
WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE (WMS)
-- MEMORY FOR NARRATIVES
-- DIGIT SPAN
-- SHORT-TERM VS. LONG-TERM MEMORY
IMPORTANT FACTORS:
STANDARDIZED ADMINISTRATION
CONTROL OF TESTING ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL FUNCTIONING
FIGURE REPRODUCTION
VISUAL AGNOSIA
MOTOR FUNCTIONING
GRIP TEST
TAPPING TEST
RE-ENACTMENT OF FAMILIAR MOTOR TASKS
APRAXIA
TEST PERFORMANCE
CAN INDICATE LOCATION OF BRAIN DAMAGE
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