| Cognitive
Domain |
Test |
Description |
| Speed of processing |
Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS):
Symbol-Coding
Category Fluency: Animal
Naming
Trail Making Test: Part A |
Timed paper-and-pencil test in which respondent
uses a key to write digits that correspond
to nonsense symbols
Oral test in which respondent names as many animals as
she/he can in 1 minute
Timed paper-and-pencil test in which respondent draws
a line to connect consecutively numbered circles placed
irregularly on a sheet of paper |
| Attention/Vigilance |
Continuous Performance Test—Identical
Pairs (CPT-IP)*
|
Computer-administered measure of sustained
attention in which respondent presses a response
button to consecutive matching numbers |
Working memory
(nonverbal)
(verbal) |
Wechsler Memory Scale®—3rd
Ed.
(WMS®-III): Spatial Span
Letter-Number Span |
Using a board on which 10 cubes are irregularly
spaced, respondent taps cubes in same (or reverse)
sequence as test administrator
Orally administered test in which respondent mentally
reorders strings of number and letters and repeats them
to administrator |
| Verbal learning |
Hopkins Verbal Learning Test—Revised™ (HVLT-R™) |
Orally administered test in which a list
of 12 words from three taxonomic categories
is presented and the respondent is asked to
recall as many as possible after each of three
learning trials |
| Visual learning |
Brief Visuospatial Memory Test—Revised (BVMT-R™)
|
A test that involves reproducing six geometric
figures from memory |
Reasoning and
problem solving |
Neuropsychological Assessment Battery® (NAB®):
Mazes |
Seven timed paper-and-pencil mazes of increasing
difficulty that measure foresight and planning |
| Social cognition |
Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence
Test (MSCEIT™): Managing Emotions |
Paper-and-pencil multiple-choice test that
assesses how people manage their emotions |
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