Registration Flashcards
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Which MMSE section directly precedes the recall section?
Answer: Attention and calculation
The attention and calculation section follows registration and precedes recall, acting as an interference task.
What type of words are traditionally used in the MMSE registration task?
Answer: Unrelated common nouns
Three semantically unrelated common nouns (e.g., apple, penny, table) are used to prevent clustering strategies.
Approximately how long after registration are patients asked to recall the words?
Answer: After several minutes of other tasks
Recall is tested after the attention/calculation section, which introduces several minutes of intervening tasks.
What does a registration score of 0 indicate?
Answer: The patient learned none of the three words
A registration score of 0 means the patient was unable to repeat any of the three presented words correctly.
Registration on the MMSE primarily tests which memory system?
Answer: Working memory / immediate recall
Registration relies on working memory and immediate recall, reflecting the initial encoding of information.
Which score on the registration task indicates the patient successfully encoded all three words?
Answer: 3
A registration score of 3 means the patient correctly repeated all three words on the first trial.