Sentences with phrase «in verbal testing»

Not exact matches

That's why the key to great chess players in pattern matching, or why the intelligence of young children can be tested even before they are verbal.

Test cricket's naming sponsor Magellan — having forced us to meet Marcus and his truly global world (Dutch beer, German trainers, Californian watch, Scottish dog, Swiss coffee) but, sadly, only Australian equities in his investment portfolio, right before Hamish Douglass paid $ 140 million for John Sevior's Australian - only equities portfolio — walked away faster than The NT News could verbal Cameron Bancroft into the infamous apologia, «Why I've Got Some Sticky Near My Dicky.»

Ironically the test I tooked that showed I have dysexia by an educational psychologist also showed I have a rich vocabulary and am in the top 1 % of the population for verbal reasoning and problem solving ability.

Based on the verbal and nonverbal data that can be acquired in therapy, the therapist must continually test out various hypotheses as to the real nature of the patient's illness in an attempt to help the patient better cope with his or her world.

A clergyman holding this belief in verbal inspiration suggested that «God put misleading fossils in the rocks to test the faith of man.»

Words about God are, after all, only verbal counters, and in themselves alone are inadequate as tests of the religious experience they are used to reveal.

This testing allows the school to be able to see verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning abilities of the student applying compared to their achievement in each of those areas.

In addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the heaIn addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the heain neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the head.

As Dr. Leverenz told MomsTEAM after publication of the first Purdue study, the limitation of screening tools currently being used to assess neurocognitive function on the sports sideline, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHI.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Results Adjusting for sociodemographics, maternal intelligence, and home environment in linear regression, longer breastfeeding duration was associated with higher Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test score at age 3 years (0.21; 95 % CI, 0.03 - 0.38 points per month breastfed) and with higher intelligence on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test at age 7 years (0.35; 0.16 - 0.53 verbal points per month breastfed; and 0.29; 0.05 - 0.54 nonverbal points per month breastfed).

Differences in Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test — Second Edition Verbal Scores at Age 7 Years According to Duration of Any Breastfeeding, With Linear Trend Line

Examples of accommodations include the ability to complete a test a different way / format, use of verbal intermediaries, and ability to request special accommodations in regard to school placement (teachers, friend in the class, etc.).

In 2007, researchers reported in the journal Early Human Development that children who had received no DHA in formula or breast milk during the first 17 weeks of life had poorer visual acuity at age 4, and did worse on language tests showing verbal IQ, than those who fed breast milIn 2007, researchers reported in the journal Early Human Development that children who had received no DHA in formula or breast milk during the first 17 weeks of life had poorer visual acuity at age 4, and did worse on language tests showing verbal IQ, than those who fed breast milin the journal Early Human Development that children who had received no DHA in formula or breast milk during the first 17 weeks of life had poorer visual acuity at age 4, and did worse on language tests showing verbal IQ, than those who fed breast milin formula or breast milk during the first 17 weeks of life had poorer visual acuity at age 4, and did worse on language tests showing verbal IQ, than those who fed breast milk.

The participants in the study took a variety of tests, which measured different aspects of their thinking abilities including memory span and verbal and spatial abilities.

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

In the California Verbal Learning Test, on a scale of 0 to 80, with 80 reflecting the best memory, the healthy participants had an average score of 55.8, whereas those with mild cognitive impairment scored an average of 40.5.

A slew of studies in adults have found that nonusers beat chronic weed smokers on tests of attention, memory, motor skills and verbal abilities, but some of this might be the result of lingering traces of cannabis in the body of users or withdrawal effects from abstaining while taking part in a study.

The authors examined data from the «Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe» in which more than 31,000 men and women over the age of 50 from 13 European countries answered questions that tested cognitive functions including memory, mathematical ability, and verbal fluency.

«Despite the fact that the literature describes only correlation between verbal memory tests and hippocampal cell densities in patients with left hippocampal sclerosis, we found a correlation between right hippocampal cell densities and performance on visual memory tests, including both immediate and delayed recall,» says authors Sandra Mara Comper and Anaclara Prada Jardim, students in the laboratory of Dr. Elza Marcia Yacubian at the Federal University of São Paulo.

For a paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on verbal IQ tests.

In terms of cognitive disability, the researchers found that in the subgroup of MS patients who underwent neuropsychological testing, those with more cerebral microbleeds had higher disability on verbal and other cognitive function testIn terms of cognitive disability, the researchers found that in the subgroup of MS patients who underwent neuropsychological testing, those with more cerebral microbleeds had higher disability on verbal and other cognitive function testin the subgroup of MS patients who underwent neuropsychological testing, those with more cerebral microbleeds had higher disability on verbal and other cognitive function tests.

Hill claims that on the basis of these tests he was then subjected to extreme and prolonged verbal and physical abuse, the police claiming that «he was covered in gelignite».

Seventh - and eighth - graders took part in the study by taking the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in mathematics (SAT - M) and verbal skills (SAT - V).

Since the right hemisphere is involved in spatial tasks and the left hemisphere is involved in verbal tasks, the researchers thought volunteers who received stimulation on the right side while training on spatial tasks would improve on spatial tests and those who received stimulation on the left side while training on verbal tasks would improve on verbal tests.

Participants then went through five standard cognitive tests involving immediate recall of a list of presented words, delayed recall of those words later, forward and backward recall of long lists of numbers, and a verbal fluency test in which they listed as many animals as possible without repetition, the use of proper nouns or descriptors.

Over a two - month trial, all six subjects in the control group showed a decline in the activation of the left hippocampus, which processes auditory memory, and on average deteriorated on tests of verbal recall.

This initial model was tested in a study where participants rated the funniness of verbal puns, as well as the funniness of variants of these jokes (e.g. the punchline on its own, the set - up on its own).

Believing that traditional psychometric tests are too abstract and crude to assess memory loss in normal people, Wesnes and Crook developed a battery of computerised tests based on everyday tasks involving verbal and visual recall.

It was these two sets of tests where participants who engaged in weekly sexual activity scored the most highly, with the verbal fluency tests showing the strongest effect.

Researchers found that people who engaged in more regular sexual activity scored higher on tests that measured their verbal fluency and their ability to visually perceive objects and the spaces between them.

Testing confirmed that verbal IQ scores, which measure vocabulary and language skills, fell in proportion to the hours of TV the children watched.

Over the years, Moffitt reported in a series of papers that these boys did poorly in neuropsychological tests (such as verbal skills and verbal memory), measured high for impulsivity, and were likely to engage in substance abuse as they grew older.

To test whether learning with language impacts which brain networks are involved in stone toolmaking, 15 of the 31 participants learned to knap stone via verbal instruction by watching videos of a skilled knapper's hands during individual training sessions.

A second study conducted in Thailand found that the digit span test was effective in identifying mild cognitive impairment, while the verbal fluency test did not demonstrate that ability.

Digit span and verbal fluency tests in patients with mild cognitive impairment and normal subjects in Thai - community.

Tests for verbal fluency included writing down as many animal names or «S» words as possible in a one - minute period.

Students were also given a verbal fluency test, in which higher - order executive functions, such as simultaneous processing, initiation and systematic retrieval of knowledge were measured.

All women performed in the normal range for their age at the beginning of the trial but there was a significant improvement in verbal learning and memory in women who were given testosterone gel after the second set of tests.

In addition, cognitive function was assessed through a variety of tests that included working memory, verbal episodic memory and visual - spatial memory as well as scanning and tracking.

This study used the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking to measure figural and verbal creativity in a control group and in a group that subsequently learned the Transcendental Meditation technique.

You can measure verbal or math skills by determining whether a student is right or wrong on a test — in other words, whether they're learning or not.

In a study of 57 people at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Cerruti manipulated activity in the nonverbal part of the brain by using direct electrical stimulation and then tested participants» verbal activitIn a study of 57 people at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Cerruti manipulated activity in the nonverbal part of the brain by using direct electrical stimulation and then tested participants» verbal activitin Boston, Cerruti manipulated activity in the nonverbal part of the brain by using direct electrical stimulation and then tested participants» verbal activitin the nonverbal part of the brain by using direct electrical stimulation and then tested participants» verbal activity.

For example, if a teacher considers being highly verbal, curious, or headstrong as negative factors or behavioral problems, (while in another culture they might be viewed as strengths or spoken about in positive terms), that student will likely not get recommended for gifted testing.

Testing narrative skills in both languages would also allow teachers to monitor whether children are developing skills in organizing a verbal narrative, in one or both languages that they are learning.

In a «verbal fluency» test, for example, the participants had to name in one minute as many words as possible starting with an assigned letter, excluding people, places, or numberIn a «verbal fluency» test, for example, the participants had to name in one minute as many words as possible starting with an assigned letter, excluding people, places, or numberin one minute as many words as possible starting with an assigned letter, excluding people, places, or numbers.

Students who took the SAT once under standard conditions and then requested an accommodation scored 45 and 38 points higher in verbal and math, respectively, when they retook the test with extended time.

Jonathan Heard is a Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research in ACER's Assessment and Reporting team, developing test content and instructional resources for verbal reasoning, reading and critical thinking assessments.

To be defined as high - achieving, we required that students score in the top 10 percent of test - takers on the College Board's SAT I or the ACT (1,300 math plus verbal on the SAT, 28 on the ACT).

To measure teacher's verbal ability, Ferguson used a literacy test that was administered in 1986 to all public school teachers in Texas.