List of Tests
The MCCB includes ten tests that assess seven cognitive domains.
| Cognitive Domain |
Test |
Description |
| Speed of processing |
Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS): Symbol-Coding
Category Fluency: Animal NamingTrail 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 SpanLetter–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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*WARNING: Do not change the CPT-IP parameter settings. Doing so will invalidate the normative scores and potentially disable the program.
