Test-order effects: a measure of verbal memory influences performance on a measure of verbal fluency
| Autor: | Jeffery M. Lating, Christopher I. Higginson, Kristina P. Lloyd, Mary Jo Coiro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty California Verbal Learning Test medicine.diagnostic_test Verbal Behavior Audiology Neuropsychological Tests Verbal Learning Verbal learning Fluency Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Memory Test Taking Skills Test score Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Raw score Verbal fluency test Humans Female Neuropsychological assessment Verbal memory Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Applied neuropsychology. Adult. 19(4) |
| ISSN: | 2327-9109 |
| Popis: | In neuropsychological assessment, the impact of completing one measure on the performance of a second measure is often unknown. The current study examined the effect of a list-learning measure, the California Verbal Learning Test-Second Edition (CVLT-II), on a verbal fluency measure, the Delis-Kaplan Executive Functioning System Verbal Fluency subtest, when completed in a battery of tests. These tests were chosen because stimuli from the CVLT-II can function as responses for Verbal Fluency. Twenty-eight individuals seeking psychoeducational evaluation were randomly assigned to one of two test orders: the CVLT-II followed by Verbal Fluency, or the reverse order. Consistent with hypotheses, individuals who completed the CVLT-II first used more words from this task as responses on the various Verbal Fluency tasks, t(26) = 2.84, p = .009. In addition, they obtained higher raw scores and scaled scores on Category Fluency: t(26) = 3.01, p = .006, and t(26) = 2.53, p = .018, respectively. Surprisingly, the larger number of words produced on Category Fluency exceeded the number of CVLT-II words used as responses. These results suggest that clinicians should consider the order of administration when using these measures, and they indicate a need for further investigation of order effects. |
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