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Improving the ecological validity of executive functioning assessment

Author(s) -

Naomi Chaytor,

Maureen SchmitterEdgecombe,

R BURR

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

archives of clinical neuropsychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909

H-Index - 98

eISSN - 1873-5843

pISSN - 0887-6177

DOI - 10.1016/j.acn.2005.12.002

Subject(s) - ecological validity , executive functions , psychology , wisconsin card sorting test , stroop effect , test (biology) , neuropsychology , neuropsychological assessment , cognition , neuropsychological test , cognitive skill , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , ecology , psychiatry , biology

The current study investigated ways to improve the ecological validity of the neuropsychological assessment of executive functioning through the formal assessment of compensatory strategies and environmental cognitive demands. Results indicated that the group of executive functioning tests (i.e., Trail Making Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop, and Controlled Oral Word Association Test) accounted for 18-20% of the variance in everyday executive ability as measured by the Dysexecutive Questionnaire and Brock Adaptive Functioning Questionnaire. The addition of extra-test variables significantly increased the variance in everyday executive ability accounted for. The current study adds to the literature on the ecological validity of executive functioning assessment by highlighting the importance of extra-test variables when trying to understand the complex relationship between cognitive testing and real world performance.

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