title: A qualitative analysis of inaccurate responses on the Hooper Visual Organization Test.
abstract: The present study investigated the types of inaccurate responses, i.e., Don't Know, Semantic, Visual (nonlinguistic), Phonological, Circumlocutory, and Perseverative, made on the Hooper Visual Organization Test by a heterogeneous sample of 68 brain-damaged and 63 substance abuse patients. The mean age of the brain-damaged and substance abuse groups were 46.0 (SD=13.5) and 43.7 (SD=12.9) yr., respectively. Analysis showed that the brain-damaged group made significantly more visual and perseverative responses than the substance abuse group. There was significantly more variance in the Visual responses than the Semantic responses for the brain-damaged group. The authors conclude that visuospatial ability is the primary factor for successful performance on this test.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Long Beach, California 90822, USA. michael.lopez@med.va.gov
authors.forename: Michael N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Lopez
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Lazar
authors.forename: Sherwin M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Imperio
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000377:Agnosia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010466:Perceptual Closure; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics; D013028:Space Perception; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception