title: Rekitting the Wechsler Paired-Associate Task: the Waterford Index.
abstract: The Waterford Index provides a new scoring system for the Wechsler paired-associate task. Item performances across successive trials were coded so as to reflect the psychological phenomena of learning, forgetting and item effects (N = 50). The Index describes two rules for differentiating between cases of cognitive impairment and non-impairment. Rule 1 contrasts the respective contributions of learning and forgetting. Rule 2 takes account of cases characterized by a high proportion of correct responses. Against a criterion index based on performances on other psychological tests of organic dysfunction, the Waterford Index yielded higher predictive efficiencies than associated with other Wechsler indices, intelligence, and age.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D014888:Wechsler Scales