Tower of London Test

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Who here has taken the Tower of London neuropsychological test? How did you do? Was it easy or difficult?

Link, please!
The only Tower of London test, I could find had three pictures and didn´t work well on the computer.

http://www.millisecond.com/download/lib ... rOfLondon/

It requires you to run a Java application, but seems to work well enough.

I did alright until it got to five steps. Then it got quite difficult for me. I might give it another go when I have more patience.

Yeah. I had the same issue with 5 steps. It got a little harder, but I was able to figure out the correct path in all cases by doing more attempts. At most I used 2 or 3 attempts (don't remember exactly).

I wonder what the average is. With the difficulty with the 5 steps, I wonder if we're performing worse or even the same (or maybe better) than the general population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London_test

I was referring to a test given by a psychologist, not something that could be taken online, but I see now that somebody found an online version.

That would be preferable, considering that a psychologist can tell you what the results mean.

That's what I originally assumed but I decided to try anyway haha

I found a similar online game:

https://www.brainturk.com/tol

Yes, but a psychologist would probably only be necessary for very detailed results and analysis. It seems pretty obvious to me that somebody who starts moving beads without thinking and has to start over several times has poor executive functioning.

On another note, I haven't gotten my results yet, but I think that I did very well on this test, and that it can only pick up major executive functioning problems. Planning and managing simple entities, such as bead movements, is easy for me, but planning appointments, public transportation, and household chore is much more difficult. Too bad these neuropsych tests don't mirror real life tasks very closely. Or maybe I'm overstating my problem, and my executive functioning is "normal."

OK, I got 3 results. I do think there was some learning involved, as I became used to some of the common move paths.

They are:

(700, 750, 700)

Now, what do these mean?

Well, I played 2 more games, getting the first 650 and the second 900. I wonder, though, what percentage of the general population did I perform better than with a score of 900?

Let me try looking for a version with a standardized score.

Have you found something online?

I could not find it. It appears that to get standard scores, you must spend hundreds of dollars.

In that case, I think, my WAIS will be sufficient

Did the examiner give you any feedback about your executive functioning skills?

No. It may be in the results somewhere, but I only got the outlines. The psychlogist has the results. I could ask him.
The social worker, that had my case at that time said: "But, we´re USED to getting it for free" - meaning the whole report,- so he only gave them a very short report for free - for my sake.
I don´t know what the executive function is, really.

Jensen,

Executive function refers to the ability to plan, respond to novel events, correct mistakes, etc.

Anyway, I emailed Brainturk and they said they do not provide standardized data to normal users.