Age range: 6 years, 5 months to 89 years
Admin: Individual
Qualification level: C
Used primarily to assess perseveration and abstract thinking, the WCST is also considered a measure of executive function because of its reported sensitivity to frontal lobe dysfunction. The WCST allows you to assess your client’s strategic planning; organized searching; and ability to utilize environmental feedback to shift cognitive sets, direct behavior toward achieving a goal, and modulate impulsive responding.
Features and benefits
- Completion of the WCST requires the ability to develop and maintain an appropriate problem-solving strategy across changing stimulus conditions in order to achieve a future goal.
- Unlike other measures of abstraction, the WCST provides objective measures of overall success and identifies particular sources of difficulty on the task (e.g., inefficient initial conceptualization, perseveration, failure to maintain a cognitive set, inefficient learning across stages of the test).
- When used with more comprehensive ability testing, the WCST is helpful in discriminating frontal from nonfrontal lesions.
WCST Introductory Kit:
- WCST Manual–Revised and Expanded
- 2 Card Decks
- 50 Record Booklets
*WCST Training DVD and Workbook Kit also available
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