The basic CATs package includes the master control program for the Colorado Assessment Tests suite of cognitive and neuropsychological tests and three tests.
The master control program maintains the participant database, which includes demographic information about the participant, test results, and user entered notes relevant to each participant; it provides access to the various tests; it manages a security system, which allows the system manager to determine what features of the test package are to be made avaialiable to each user; and it provides system maintenance functions such as data backup and new test addition. It is required in order to run any of the tests available from Colorado Assessment Tests.
The Memory Cards Test provides an assessment of working memory and long-term memory. Cards (from 4 to 48) are presented on the screen face down and the subject attempts of locate the matching pairs of cards by turning over two cards at a time. Like the Baker-Ward and Ornstein test, this test is similar to the old television show Concentration and the card game of Concentration or Memory. The initial trial provides an assessment of short-term or working memory for visuospatial information. On subsequent trials the cards remain in the same arrangement. Thus, information learned on the first trial is now useful to the subject in locating matching pairs of cards. The subject uses long-term memory on all the trials after the first trial. A test containing figures is shown below. Several hundred subjects have been tested on this version of memory cards and their results will be presented in this chapter of your manual.
The Verbal Priming, Recall, and Recognition Test is a flexible software package for creating many different kinds of verbal tests. The recall and recognition tests can be used to examine declarative memory functions, and the priming component of this test can be used to examine nondeclarative memory function. Declarative memory refers to the conscious recollection of information, is thought to be effortful, and frequently has a personal and temporal context. In the laboratory, recall and recognition tests are the standard methods for assessing declarative memory. Nondeclartive memory is frequently used to describe a domain of memory that can occur without conscious awareness. Nondeclarative memory includes repetition priming, skill learning, some forms of nonassociative learning, and classical conditioning. The recall tests in your software can be used to examine semantic and serial clustering in recall, and it also allows for examination of subjective organization. The effects of depth of processing manipulations can be accessed for recall, recognition, and priming. This latter test, priming, is one of the most frequently used methods for accessing nondeclarative memory functioning.
The Tower of Hanoi Test is used in studies of problem solving and strategy development. Cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists have examined the Tower of Hanoi performance of normal subjects and amnesic patients. Recently performance of young and elderly subjects has been studied using this task. Performance on the Tower of Hanoi may reflect implicit memory, strategy development, and/or higher order cognitive functioning. The Tower of Toronto is almost identical to this test and is offered as an add-on test to your basic CATs package.
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