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measure Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YE_COG12 YE_COG18The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is an IQ test for children of 6-17 years of age to determine general intelligence. It generates a full scale IQ (formerly known as an intelligence quotient or IQ score) that represents a child's general intellectual ability. The most common primary index scores are the Verbal Comprehension Index, the...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YE_COG18The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) assesses the ability to recognize complex mental states as expressed by human eyes. Participants pick one of four options (e.g. puzzled, nervous, insisting or contemplative) which they think best describes what the person in each photograph is thinking or feeling.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Tower of Hanoi
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1The Tower of Hanoi is a psychological problem solving task (a mathematical game or puzzle). It consists of three rods and a number of disks of different diameters, which can slide onto any rod. The puzzle starts with the disks stacked on one rod in order of decreasing size, the smallest at the top, thus approximating a conical shape. The objective of the...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Raven's Progressive Matrices Test (RPM)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF3Raven's Progressive Matrices (often referred to simply as Raven's Matrices or RPM) is a non-verbal test used to measure general intelligence and abstract reasoning. It is one of the most common tests administered to both groups and individuals ranging from 5-years-olds to the elderly. It consists of 60 multiple choice questions, listed in order of...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Pi Inspection Time Task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_COG18In the inspection time (IT) paradigm, participants view two lines of unequal length (called the Pi-figure) for a short exposure time, and then judge which of the two lines was longer.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Eriksen flanker task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YE_ATTEF2 YC_ADHMRIThe Eriksen flanker task is a response inhibition test used to assess the ability to suppress responses that are inappropriate in a particular context.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure CITO score
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_TRF5 YS_TRF7 YS_TRF10 YS_12 YS_TRF12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YS_CITO YS_DT YS_TRIP12The CITO-test is a standardized test for educational achievement that is administered in the final grade (when children are 11 or 12 years old) of elementary school. The CITO-test consists of multiple choice items in 4 different educational skills, namely Arithmetic, Language, Study Skills, and Science and Social Studies. All scores on the scales are...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Controlled Oral Word Association task (COWA)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1The Controlled Oral Word Association task (COWA) is a subtest of the Multilingual Aphasia Exam that measures verbal fluency.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Rey’s Verbal Learning Test
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2The Rey’s Auditory Verbal Learning Task (AVLT) is a task which measures short and long term verbal memory. A list of 15 unrelated, concrete nouns is presented with a 1 second interval on an audio CD over five learning trials. After each presentation, participants have to name as many of the presented words as possible. Next, after a delay interval of...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure One Minute Reading Task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_7 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3One subtest of the ‘one minute reading test’ was administered as a measure of technical reading performance, or oral reading fluency. It measures the accuracy and speed of decoding. Children were instructed to read out loud as many words as possible in 1 min without making errors from a card containing 120 unrelated words.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure N-back task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_COG18Spatial variant of the n-back task to assess visuospatial working memory.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Corsi block-tapping task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YE_COG18The Corsi block tapping task assesses short-term spatial memory.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Stroop colour-word task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YC_ADHMRI YE_COG18Pairs of conflicting stimuli, both being inherent aspects of the same symbols, were presented simultaneously (a name of one color printed in the ink of another color—a word stimulus and a color stimulus). The difference in time for reading the words printed in colors and the same words printed in black is the measure of the interference of color stimuli...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023