Further Consideration of Advanced Clinical Solutions Word Choice: Comparison to the Recognition Memory Test-Words and Classification Accuracy in a Clinical Sample

Word Choice (WC), a test in the Advanced Clinical Solutions package for Wechsler measures, was examined in two studies. The first study compared WC to the Recognition Memory Test-Words (RMT-W) in a clinical sample (N = 46). WC scores were significantly higher than RMT-W scores overall and in sample...

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Published inClinical neuropsychologist Vol. 28; no. 8; pp. 1278 - 1294
Main Author Davis, Jeremy J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hove Routledge 17.11.2014
Psychology Press
Subjects
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Female
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Performance validity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Recognition (Psychology)
Recognition Memory Test
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Techniques and methods
Vocabulary
Wechsler Scales
Word Choice
Human
Recognition memory
Choice
Word
Memory
Neuropsychological test
Psychometrics
Cognition
Recognition Memory Test
Validity
Accuracy
Performance validity
Language
Classification
Performance
Comparative study
Word Choice
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Summary:Word Choice (WC), a test in the Advanced Clinical Solutions package for Wechsler measures, was examined in two studies. The first study compared WC to the Recognition Memory Test-Words (RMT-W) in a clinical sample (N = 46). WC scores were significantly higher than RMT-W scores overall and in sample subsets grouped by separate validity indicators. In item-level analyses, WC items demonstrated lower frequency, greater imageability, and higher concreteness than RMT-W items. The second study explored WC classification accuracy in a different clinical sample grouped by separate validity indicators into Pass (n = 54), Fail-1 (n = 17), and Fail-2 (n = 8) groups. WC scores were significantly higher in the Pass group (M = 49.1, SD = 1.9) than in the Fail-1 (M = 46.0, SD = 5.3) and Fail-2 (M = 44.1, SD = 4.8) groups. WC demonstrated area under the curve of .81 in classifying Pass and Fail-2 participants. Using the test manual cutoff associated with a 10% false positive rate, sensitivity was 38% and specificity was 96% in Pass and Fail-2 groups with 24% of Fail-1 participants scoring below cutoff. WC may be optimally used in combination with other measures given observed sensitivity.
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ISSN:1385-4046
1744-4144
DOI:10.1080/13854046.2014.975844