Pyramids and Palm Trees Test.
PPTT
- What it measures
- Access to detailed semantic knowledge about words and objects (semantic memory); associative semantic matching independent of naming
- Length and format
- 52 triads (one target + two response items); six versions by stimulus modality (pictures and/or words). 3-picture (or word) semantic-association matching (choose which response is most related to the target), correct-match score (max 52) (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Spanish, Persian/Farsi, Chinese (adapted Pyramids and Palm Trees / Kissing and Dancing) and others
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Howard D, Patterson K. The Pyramids and Palm Trees Test. Thames Valley Test Company/Pearson; 1992.
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