This week for Abnormal Psychology I started to look over some of the information in chapter 3 because I am pretty sure that there will be an exam coming up soon. I found the part in chapter 3 about neuropsychological testing to be especially interesting. I read about how today there are sophisticated tests that can locate a dysfunction that is occurring within someone's brain and these tests are available to all but can be expensive. Neuropsychological testing measures abillities in areas of reception, expressive language, attention and concentration, memory, motor skills, perceptional ablities, and learning and abstraction so that a profesional in the field of brain sciences can make a educated guess about a person's mental skills and possible dysfunction. One of the more popular tests of neuropsychology among children is the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, which is a test that is made up of cards that have different lines and shapes and then the child is asked to draw what is seen on the cards. This test has been found to be very useful for psychologists. The Luria-Nebraska Neurpsychological Battery and Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery are popular and advanced tests that are used today and can precisely determine dysfunctions within the brain by assessing many different skills. The Luria Nebraska test has been found to have eighty percent correctness statistically. Neuropsychological tests are used mostly as screening devices and usually go along with other forms of assessment that evaluate what the function of ones own mental health is. I found this to be interesting to read about because today there are many different types of tests that can evaluate a person's brain sometimes though a computer system like a positron emission tomography and there are other tests that are not computerized but are in the form of pictures, cards or other methods. And today it seems to be quite common that people are evaluated through these types of tests if you consider IQ tests or online personality tests and all of the many kinds of computerized tests.