Concordance between the CVLT and the WMS-III word lists test.
The California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) and the Word Lists Test (WLT) from the Wechsler Memory Scale-III are widely used tests of verbal learning and memory. To examine concordance between these popular tests, we administered both to a diagnostically diverse group of 25 patients. As expected, measures from the two tests were highly correlated, although level of concordance was not as high as might be expected. When diagnostic outcomes were discordant for free recall measures, the CVLT indicated impairment more often than did the WLT.
McDowell
Bradley D
BD
Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research, 1-287 Medical Education Bldg., University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1000, USA. bradley-mcdowell@uiowa.edu
Bayless
John D
JD
Moser
David J
DJ
Meyers
John E
JE
Paulsen
Jane S
JS
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D014888:Wechsler Scales