C-38Executive Functioning Elementary Cognitive Tasks: a Concurrent Validity Study

The criterion validity of tasks of basic cognitive processes B

The present study evaluated the criterion validity of the aggregated tasks of basic cognitive processes (TBCP). In age groups from 6 to 19 of the Woodcock-Johnson III Cognitive Abilities and Achievement Tests normative sample, the aggregated TBCP, i.e., the processing speed and working memory clusters, correlate with measures of scholastic achievement as strongly as the conventional indexes of ...

Assessing the Concurrent Validity of a Novel Performance-Based Task of Executive Functioning

The Child Abuse Potential Inventory: a study of concurrent validity.

Forty-four subjects were assigned to a High or Low Abuse Potential Group based upon their Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory's abuse scale scores. Each subject's heart rate (HR) and skin conductance (SC) were monitored while the subject was viewing videotape presentations of an infant smiling, crying, or quiescent. The High Abuse Potential Group had a faster peak HR throughout the videotape ...

Subjective age and cognitive functioning: a 10-year prospective study.

OBJECTIVES The present study examines whether subjective age (i.e., how old or young individuals feel) is associated with cognitive functioning and tests potential mediators of this association. DESIGN Data from the two waves of measurement of the Midlife in the United States survey were used, with assessments conducted at the first wave in 1994-1995 and at the second wave in 2004-2006. PAR...

Cognitive functioning pre- to post-kidney transplantation--a prospective study.

BACKGROUND Kidney transplantation (TX) may ameliorate the neuropsychological (NP) impairments in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Previous studies have suffered from small sample sizes, lack of standardization of dialysis adequacy, and insufficiently sensitive NP tests. METHODS Twenty-eight medically stable patients aged 44.04 (12.01) years with ESRD were investigated before and at 6 months af...