Effects of parental presence and child characteristics on children's neuropsychological test performance: Third party observer effect confirmed

摘要: An observer's presence during neuropsychological testing can impair task performance in adults, but this phenomenon has yet to be examined as it pertains of children. The current study focused on parental effects nonverbal intelligence and verbal learning children aged 6 8 years. Each 53 completed one form the Test Nonverbal Intelligence-3rd Edition (TONI-3) Selective Reminding (SRT) with his/her parent room an alternate each only experimenter child room. Of several possible covariates, child's age was significant included final analyses. Using a doubly multivariate MANCOVA discovered that parent's observation status significantly interacted order impact performance. This effect mainly attributed steeper positive slope (i.e., children's greater improvement over time) for TONI-3 T scores whose observed first; parents were absent first half improved lesser extent time. No relationship found between SRT scores. These results lend some support assertion previous studies third party observers may affect validity test results.