Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT)

with Stop & Go Switch Task (SGST)

Margie
Margie
MIDUS IIE.
E.Lachman,
Lachman,
Cognitive Project
Project
Test Leader
BatteryLeader
Manual
Patricia A.
A.Tun,
Tun,Co-Investigator
PatriciaUpdated Co Investigator
April 2012
Brandeis
BrandeisUniversity
University

MIDUS II Cognitive Test Battery Manual

Updated
UpdatedJanuary 2011
March 2012

Supported by PO1 AG20166 & RO1 AG17920

 Table of Contents

1. Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone form

FormAA–template
p. 1-10
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template
(For Form B or a Spanish translation of the BTACT, email
2. Brief
MargieTest of Adultlachman@brandeis.edu.)
Lachman: Cognition by Telephone form B – p. 10
11-19
18
2.
3. Guidelines
BTACT form for A
Administering
answer sheet and
– p. Scoring
26 the BTACT p. 9 13
20-27
19

3.
4. Options
BTACT for Administration
form and– Scoring
B answer sheet p. 27 34 of the Stop and Go Task p. 14 20
28-35

4.
5. Information about
Guidelines for Recording and
Administering and Administering the BTACT
Scoring the BTACT 35and
39 Stop and Go Task p. 21
– p. 36-40

6. Information
5. Options for Administration
about Automaticand Scoring
Scoring of of
thethe Stop
Stop and
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Task Task – p. 41-47
p. 22 40 46

7. BTACT
6. Information about Recording
Bibliography and Administering the BTACT and
p. 23 24
Stop and Go Switch Task – p. 48
47

8. Information about Automatic Scoring of the Stop and Go Swich Task – p. 48

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9. BTACT References – p. 49
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 MIDUS II Cognitive Test Battery
Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT)
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In this phone interview I will ask you to try and do some exercises that involve
remembering and making judgments about words and numbers. Before we begin, I need to tell
you a few things. Your participation is completely voluntary. If you prefer not to answer any
question, just let me know and we will go on to the next question. The information that you give
me will be confidential and used for statistical analysis only. It will be identified only by
computer code and at no time will your name or other identifying information be attached to the
survey results. Therefore, I won’t be able to give any specific feedback.

These tasks are not harmful in any way. The exercises will take about 15 minutes. Do
you have any questions about your participation is this study?

We will be tape recording the interview today so that we can score the exercises later.
Do I have your permission to go ahead with this?

(If participant seems distracted, or there is noise or commotion in background such as young
children, TV or radio, or other people talking, say “It is important that you are able to
concentrate without being distracted while we do these exercises. Would it be better for me to
call you back another time?” If so, make an appointment for another time.)

First I would like to make sure that you are able to hear me clearly. Please repeat these numbers
after me: 2, 8, 3, 6, 9. (If not loud enough, ask person to speak up clearly.) Could you hear me
clearly?

Now you will hear some words and numbers. Please do not use a paper and pencil for any of the
questions. We suggest that you close your eyes while you are doing these to help you
concentrate. Some of the questions will be easy for you, and some will be harder. We do not
expect anyone to get all of these correct - just do the best you can.

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WORD LIST RECALL (1.5 minutes on average)
Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (Lezak, 1983)

I am going to read a list of words. Listen carefully. When I am finished, you are to repeat as
many of the words as you can remember. It doesn’t matter in what order you repeat them. Just
try to remember as many as you can. I will say each word only one time, and I cannot repeat any
words. You will have up to one and a half minutes, and I will not say anything until I tell you
that your time is up. Do you have any questions? Are you ready?

(Read with one second interval between each word)

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of items
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included

Now tell me as many words as you can remember.

(Record words recalled correctly by entering the one or two letter code, as well as repetitions of
same word and intrusions).

If person stops before 1 1/2 minutes is up, say, “There’s still time left, can you think of any
more?”

Good, now let’s go on.

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DIGITS BACKWARD (2.5 minutes)
(copyrighted test)
WAIS III (1997)

I am going to say some strings of numbers, and when I am done I would like you to repeat them
backwards, in the reverse order from which I said them. So if I said “3, 8”, you would say
“8, 3”. Do you understand? The sets will get larger as we go.

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Good, now let’s go on.

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CATEGORY FLUENCY (1.5 minutes)
Drachman & Leavitt (1972)

Now I am going to name a category and you will name things that belong in that
category. Let’s practice with the category “fruit”. You could say peach, or pear. Can you think
of any other fruits? (wait for 2 correct items). In a moment I will give you another category.
When I say begin, you will name all the things from this new category you can think of, as fast
as you can. You will have one minute to do this. I will let you know when your time is up. The
here. Do you have any questions? Ready?
new category is not included here.
Begin. (Time for one minute). If person stops before 1 minute is up, say “There’s still
more time, can you think of any more?”

Good, now let’s go on.

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STOP AND GO TASK (3-3.5 minutes)

Next I am going to see how quickly you can respond to the words RED and GREEN.
Every time I say RED you will say STOP, and every time I say GREEN you will say GO. Try to
be accurate, but respond as quickly as you can. So when I say RED you will say…
And when I say GREEN you will say…
Do you have any questions? Let’s begin. This will last about 1 minute.

here.
Trials not included here

Good, now let’s do something different.

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NUMBER SERIES (2.5 minutes)
Salthouse & Prill (1987)

In the next exercise I will read you a series of numbers that may get larger or smaller in
value. At the end you will try to figure out what the next number would be. So if the numbers
were 2,4,6,8,10, the next number would be 12. After I say each number I will pause for as long
as you need, and then you should say “okay” when you are ready for me to go on to the next
number in the group. So if I said 2, you should say “okay” when you are ready for me to go on
to the next number, then I say 4, you say okay, 6, okay, 8, okay, 10, and at the end I will ask you
what you think the next number would be. In this case the next number would be 12, as each
number has increased by 2.

Let’s try one for practice: 35 (okay), 30 (okay), 25 (okay), 20 (okay), 15 (okay) AND the
next number would be….???? (The answer should be 10 as each number has decreased by 5).
There will be different patterns, and some of these will be harder than others, so just do the best
you can. If you are not sure of the answer, it is okay to guess. Do you have any questions?
(Pause after each of the first 4 items for okay response; after the last item, say AND the next
number is…?).

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Good, let’s move on.

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30 SECONDS AND COUNTING TASK (30-SACT) (45 seconds)

Next, I would like to see how fast you can count You will have half a minute. Do you
have any questions? I will let you know when the time is up.

Specific instructions
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Begin (Time for 30 seconds)

Record final number reached, and number of errors.

Good, now one more question.

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Thank you very much for your help. We appreciate you taking the time to help us with this
research project.

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the the
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Recording audio:
There are many programs that can be used to record audio. The one we use here is
called Audacity. This is available at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ to download for
free. I would recommend downloading the most recent non-beta version.
If you are using a computer that does not have a built-in microphone, there are
many different ones available for purchase. A good one is the Labtec pc mic 333, which
plugs into the microphone jack and can be mounted to a laptop (comes with adhesive and
peel-off backing). It was about ten dollars when we purchased it from Amazon a couple
years ago.

Administering the stop and go switch

task: task:
The software we use to run the red-green/Stop
stop and go taskand Go Switch Task is called
is called
DirectRT and is put out by Empirisoft. For information on this software visit the web site:
http://www.empirisoft.com/directrt.aspx
To see pricing and place your order, see the following link:
http://www.empirisoft.com/order.aspx

stop and go
I can give you all the files that you will need to run the red-green taskyou
once once you
purchase DirectRT. Here is how to arrange these files on the computer(s) you will use for
testing: Create a folder (which you can place on the desktop or wherever is best for you)
and name it red-green
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software knows where to access the stimuli. Inside of this Stim folder you should place
all of the other files (the instructions test files, and the "red3" "green3" "normal2" and
"reverse2" sound files). Then when you open up DirectRT and you want to run red-green, the task,
click on the File menu and then click "Select and run input file." Browse your computer
until you find the RedGreen version 3 with fixed response stimulus intervals.csv file, and
select that one. Then when the little window pops up, enter your participant ID number
and click OK and then you are off and running.
If you have any questions about this or have any trouble, feel free to call or email
me (leea@brandeis.edu or 781.736.3245) and I will help you the best I can. For issues
relating to problems with DirectRT, if I can’t help you, they have a support form here:
http://support.empirisoft.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3 or you can email
service@empirisoft.com. My experience has been that it is quite slow getting a response,
so make sure to test the program out long before you need to start running participants.

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red-green

We are able to do automatic presentation and scoring of the stop

red-green
and gobyby
using
using
the software DirectRT in conjunction with a microphone attached to your computer and
the speaker phone function of a land line telephone (we have stayed away from cell
phones so far because there is a sometimes a minor to significant delay, which would
affect reaction times). The software presents each pre-recorded “red” or “green” stimulus
through the speakers of the computer. When the participant responds “stop” or “go,” the
computer microphone picks this up (assuming your voice response settings in DirectRT
are adjusted properly1). The software automatically moves on to the next trial and plays
the next stimulus word 1000 milliseconds after the onset of the participant’s vocal
response. Reaction times are recorded by the software and output into an Excel
spreadsheet. This spreadsheet can be found in the Data folder of your project, and the
reaction time is in the column labeled “RT.” This represents the length of time from the
end of the stimulus word “red” or “green” until the onset of the participant’s vocal
response. If one wishes to consider the reaction time from the beginning of the stimulus
word, one must add 350 milliseconds to the RT in order account for the length of the
“red” or “green” stimulus. These reaction times can be manipulated by using a macro or
other similar procedure to put them in a format that can easily transferred to Excel or
other statistical package.

1
In DirectRT click on Tools>Voice Response Setup to test the sensitivity of your microphone and adjust to
a level low enough that the participant will always be “heard” by the microphone, but not so low that
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(2011). Associations between cognitive function and naturally occurring daily cortisol

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