Sustained Attention |
Capacity to maintain an attentional activity over a
period of time |
Trail Making Test -TMT (Part A) |
Alternating Attention |
Capacity to shift in focus and tasks |
Trail Making Test - TMT (Part B) |
Immediate Memory |
Capacity to grasp an adequate amount of information and
recall it immediately |
Digit Span - Direct Order (WAIS-III) |
Working Memory |
Capacity to hold and manipulate information in mind for
a short period of time |
Digit Span - Reverse Order (WAIS-III) |
Memory - Immediate Recall |
Capacity to recall the information immediately after
the stimulus |
Rey Auditory Verbal Learning - RAVLT |
Memory - Delayed Recall |
Capacity to recall the information after a short
period, usually 20 minutes after the stimulus |
Rey Auditory Verbal Learning - RAVLT |
Memory - Recognition |
Capacity to recognize the information stored from a
visual or verbal stimulus |
Rey Auditory Verbal Learning - RAVLT |
Executive Function |
Ability enabling the individual to create plans,
goal-setting, strategies, make decisions, monitoring, solving
problems, mental flexibility and response initiation and
inhibition |
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test - WCST |
Ideomotor Praxis |
Capacity to assemble, build and draw from a mental
model |
Clock Drawing Test |
Constructive Praxis |
Capacity to assemble, build and draw from a concrete
model |
Cubes (WAIS- III) |
Naming Ability |
Capacity to name objects or pictures |
Boston Naming Test - BNT |
Verbal Fluency |
Capacity to produce a quantity of words, usually within
a restricted category |
FAS |