The Vienna Test System is a computerized collection of tests and assessments that can be used alone or as a series of tests. The system includes 74 instruments covering work, health and education and categorized into Intelligence, General Aptitude, Special Aptitude, Personality Structure, Attitudes and Interests and Clinical tests.
Cognitrone (COG) is a general ability test that clinically measures attention and alertness. It is necessary to catch the similarity of constantly changing shapes within the integrity of the test and to react quickly and accurately. When slowing and deterioration of attention is detected, the cause is examined neurologically and psychiatrically. It is a general ability test that measures attention and alertness clinically and is used in psychological rehabilitation programs.
The tester is asked to compare the sample shape shown below with the ones above and to know both quickly and accurately whether it is completely similar or not. Answers should be given with the decision of similar or dissimilar. During the test evaluation, sharpness and decisiveness are evaluated as well as speed. When slowing or deterioration of attention is detected, the cause is examined neurologically and psychiatrically.
The Connitrone is one of the 8 General Aptitude Tests in the fully computerized Vienna Test System. It is a general performance test for the assessment of attention and concentration based on Reulecke's (1991) theory of concentration. There are test forms that can be administered to adults and children older than four years. The tests involve the presentation of abstract figures at a level appropriate to the test taker. Items are displayed on a screen and test takers respond using a computer keyboard or VTS work panel. Each test begins with an animated instruction phase and an error-sensitive practice phase. The display area contains ten test forms (S1-S9 and S11) that differ in item difficulty, number of items, runtime limit and number of figures. Seven of the test forms have unlimited runtime (S1-S3, S7-S9, S11) and three test forms have a fixed runtime of 1.8 seconds per item (S4-S6). Test forms S1/S4, S2/S5 and S3/S6 differ in the complexity of the models. Test form S7 contains only one digit in the display area for the target to be compared. Test forms S8 and S9 contain simple figures and the total time limit is seven minutes. Scoring is computer-administered and based on two main criteria: the number of correct responses for timed versions and the response time for untimed versions. Both of these are normed using percentiles and T-scores. Some secondary measures are also reported, such as correct hits versus correct rejections. A computer-generated score report is presented, which can be downloaded as a word file.