Application
Assesses learning and remembering of face/name associations.
Learning face/name associations and recalling newly learned or familiar names is of key importance in social interaction and crucial in private life, in education and at work. Poor performance or actual disorders in this area are often experienced as particularly stressful. The test was developed for assessment in clinical neuropsychology but it can also be used to rate the performance of healthy individuals, for example in the context of personnel selection and development.
Administration
The faces and names of ten people are presented to the respondent both acoustically and visually in up to five learning runs. After each learning run the respondent is asked to recall the name that goes with each face (“cued recall”).
Medium-term memory is tested 30 minutes after the learning runs.
Test forms
S1: Parallel form A
S2: Parallel form B
Scoring
The following main variables are scored:
- Learning total (runs 1-5): Sum of correctly assigned names – indicator of the ability to learn face/name associations.
- Delayed reproduction, correct: Names correctly assigned after a 30-minute break – measure of medium-term remembering of face/name associations.
Scoring elements
Profile
Working time
Confidence interval
Profile analysis
Item analysis protocol
Progress chart
Special diagrammatic representation of results
Personalized Word report
Test type
Test information
modular
language-free item
parallel test form
conforms to the
additional device
high level of test
test form available for online presentation - open
links to CogniPlus
supervisor-supported
Languages
Duration
approx. 10–20 minutes
There should be an interval of 30 minutes between the tests.
Age
Norms for ages 16+.
Special features
The FNA has high face validity.
