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The Children’s Category Test (CCT) is an abbreviated version of the original Halstead Category Test (HCT; Reitan and Wolfson 1992). The CCT is an individually administered instrument designed to measure nonverbal learning and memory, concept formation, and problem-solving abilities. The CCT consists of two levels. Level 1 is given to children aged 5–8 and consists of five subtests and 80 items. Level 2 is given to children aged 9–16 and consists of six subtests and 83 items. The child’s task is to identify the single conceptual rule underlying the items in each subtest. The last subtest on both levels requires the child to remember and reapply the conceptual rules from previous subtests.
The CCT was normed on a stratified representative sample of 920 children in 12 age groups ranging from 5 years to 16 years, 11 months. Administration requires approximately 15–20 min. The raw score is the total number of errors (CCT Total), which is converted into an age-normed...
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Ramos Scarborough, V.L., Yeates, K.O. (2018). Children’s Category Test. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1531
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