Social Cognition include tests for abilities such as facial recognition, name-face association, prosody, and theory of mind that are important aspects of social functioning.

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Social Cognition

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Social Cognition include tests for abilities such as facial recognition, name-face association, prosody, and theory of mind that are important aspects of social functioning.

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Age range:
Individuals 16:0 – 90:11
Publication date:
2009
Qualification level:
C
Completion time:
35-45 minutes
Administration:
Paper and pencil
Scores/Interpretation:
Scaled, Contrast, Cumulative Percentages
Scoring options:
Manual Scoring

Impaired social cognition is presented in many developmental and psychiatric disorders such as ADHD, ASD, TBI, Dementias, and Schizophrenia. Is it important to determine how an examinee processes social information and how that affects his or her daily interactions with others.

Benefits

  • Provides an estimate of premorbid intellectual functioning.
  • Now offers software to make scoring easier and more flexible.
  • Enhanced by the addition of harder words and an extended IQ range of predictability.

Features

Social Cognition is now available as a free standing component of the Advanced Clinical Solutions for WAIS-IV and WMS-IV.

  • Social Perception: a general screening tool that measures deficits in social perception in a number of disorders.
  • Faces Subtest: useful when evaluating individuals with potential deficits related to social cognition.
  • Names Subtest: measures the ability to learn the first and last names of 10 individual children allowing the type of association memory deficit to be identified.
  • Error Scores
  • Effort Scores