Diagnostic Instruments, Treatment Planning, and Controlling the Treatment Process


Instrument

Type

Operationalized variables

Regensburg verbal fluency test (Regensburger Wortflüssigkeitstest, RWT) : Categorical and verbal fluency

Test

Speed of information processing

Number/symbol test from the Wechsler intelligence test for adults (Wechsler-Intelligenztest für Erwachsene, WIE)

Test

Speed of information processing

Trail Making Test A, TMT A

Test

Speed of information processing

Concentration-strain test, d2 (Brickenkamp 2002)

Test

Discriminative capacity under strain, sustained attention, visual scanning

Continuous Performance Test, CPT (orig. Rosvold et al. 1956; UCLA-Version: Nuechterlein and Asarnow 1992)

Computer test

Sustained attention, vigilance and impulsivity, attentional errors

Span of Apprehension Test, SPAN (UCLA version: Nuechterlein and Asarnow 1992)

Computer test

Selective attention, attention span

Color-word interference test (Farbe-Wort-Interferenztest, FWIT) (Bäumle 1985)

Test

Information processing, such as selecting, coding, and decoding in optic/verbal functional areas, processing speed

Frankfurt adaptive concentration test (Frankfurter Adaptiver Konzentrationsleistungs-Test, FAKT II) (Goldhammer and Moosbrugger 2005)

Computer test

Power of concentration, performance course

Learning and memory test (Lern- und Gedächtnistest, LGT 3) (Bäumler 1974)

Test

Retentivity, concentration, orientation

Learning aptitude and retentivity test (Lern- und Merkfähigkeitstest, LMT) (Seyfried 1990)

Test

Learning aptitude and retentivity

Standard Progressive Matrices, SPM (Raven 1971)

Test

General intelligence potential, power of observation, and clear thinking

Tower of Hanoi test (Loong 1988)

Computer test

Complex reasoning processes, abstract problem solving, procedural learning

Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, WCST (Heaton 1981)

Computer test

Flexibility of reasoning, faculty of abstraction, perseverations, concept formation

Number connection test (Zahlen-Verbindungs-Test, ZVT) (Oswald and Roth 1978)

Test

Speed of information processing




Table 4.2
Social-cognitive measurement tools



















































Instrument

Type

Operationalized variables

Picture of Facial Affect, PFA (Ekman and Friesen 1976; Wölwer et al. 1996)

Computer test

Emotion perception

Face Emotion Identification Task, FEIT (Kerr and Neale 1993)

Test

Emotion perception

Bell-Lysaker Emotion Recognition Task, BLERT (Bell et al. 1997)

Test

Emotion perception

Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, MSCEIT (Mayer et al. 2003)

Test and computer test

Emotion perception

Half-Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity, PONS (Bell et al. 1979)

Test

Social perception

Social Cue Recognition Test, SCRT (Corrigan and Green 1993)

Test

Social perception

Eye/Theory-of-Mind Test, Eye-ToM (Baron-Cohen et al. 2001)

Questionnaire

Theory of Mind

Hinting task (Corcoran et al. 1995)

Test

Theory of Mind

Social Component Sequencing Task-Revised, SCST-R (Corrigan and Addis 1995; Vauth et al. 2004)

Computer test

Social schemata/social knowledge

Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire, AIHQ (Combs et al. 2007)

Questionnaire

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