A clinical neuropsychologist is evaluating the benefits of an ADHD medication in an adolescent patient. This is an example of assessing cognitive change.

When assessing cognitive change in an individual patient, there are many sources of error that need to be considered. Which of the following is one of these sources of error?

In Dr. Duff’s research, practice effects across one week in older adults has been linked to all of the following, except:

Dr. X wants to examine if cognitive change is related to a meaningful outcome, like return to work after a traumatic brain injury. It would be acceptable to correlate his change scores to his outcome measure.

According to the existing literature, which change score method is considered to be “the best”?

A value of +/-1.645 is a common demarcation point for determining change with RCIs and SRBs.

An important advance in the SRB methodology was when Maassen et al. (2006) demonstrated that SRB values:

Simple SRB is to complex SRB as ____ is to ____.

In the SRB, the denominator is:

In the SRB, the numerator is:

You calculate an RCI+PE on your patient. Which of the following values reflect that your patient showed the most decline compared to the normative sample?

In the RCI+PE, the denominator is:

In the RCI+PE, the numerator is:

One reason that SRBs are less commonly used than RCIs is that SRBs:

Chelune et al.’s RCI corrects for practice effects by

Common statistical methods for assessing change in the individual patient include all of the following, except:

Dr. X wants to avoid practice effects on the repeat assessment of her patient. Which strategy would best help her achieve that goal?

Practice effects might be expected to be largest on which cognitive test if the exact same test form was used on repeat assessment?

Practice effects are …

In the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology’s position paper on serial neuropsychological assessment (Heilbronner et al., 2011), they recommended that neuropsychologists do all of the following, except: