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Performances on Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test and Rey Complex Figure Test in a healthy, elderly Danish sample – reference data and validity issues
Author(s) -
VOGEL ASMUS,
STOKHOLM JETTE,
JØRGENSEN KASPER
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00909.x
Subject(s) - psychology , danish , test (biology) , recall , clinical psychology , raw score , california verbal learning test , audiology , verbal learning , cognition , cognitive psychology , medicine , statistics , psychiatry , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , raw data , mathematics , biology
Vogel, A., Stokholm, J. & Jørgensen, K. (2012). Performances on Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test and Rey Complex Figure Test in a healthy, elderly Danish sample – reference data and validity issues. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 53, 26–31. This study presents Danish data for Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) and Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT) from 100 subjects aged 60–87 years. Education and estimated verbal intelligence (DART score) had a significant impact on the RAVLT trial 1–5 score but not on other RAVLT measures. The RCFT copy score was significantly related to age and the DART score. On RCFT recall a highly significant difference was found between persons who could make a faultless copy and persons with incomplete copy performance. Thus, this study presents separate data for RCFT recall scores according to the subjects’ copying performance (in separate tables for age and education groups). For all measures on both RAVLT and RCFT wide distributions of scores were found and the impact of this broad score range on the tests’ discriminative validity is discussed. RAVLT performances for elderly were similar to previous published meta‐norms, but the included sample of elderly Danes performed better on RCFT (copy and recall) than elderly from the United States.