Relationships Between the Booklet Category Test and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.

Author(s)

William D. MacInnes
Charles J. Golden, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
J. M. McFadden
Greta N. Wilkening

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1983

Publication Title

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volume

21

Issue/Number

3-4

First Page

257

ISSN

0020-7454

Last Page

264

Abstract/Excerpt

This study compares total errors on the Booklet Form of the Category Test (DeFilippis, McCampbell & Rogers, 1979) with several scores of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (Heaton, 1981). In a heterogeneous sample of 30 neurologically impaired patients and 31 normal individuals the two tests exhibited a maximum correlation of 0.52 when partialing out the effects of age and education. In addition, this study suggests that the two exhibit similar overall diagnostic hit rates; however, they differ in false negatives and false positives. These results bring into question the assumption that these two neuropsychological tests are interchangeable. A need to recognize the nature of the differences between the tests in their clinical applications and in future research is discussed.

DOI

10.3109/00207458308986143

NSUWorks Citation

MacInnes, W. D., Golden, C. J., McFadden, J. M., Wilkening, G. N. (1983). Relationships Between the Booklet Category Test and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.. International Journal of Neuroscience, 21(3-4), 257-264.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/339