APA Dictionary of Psychology

a battery of nine measures used in the evaluation of higher cognitive functions (e.g., planning, problem solving, abstract thinking) in both children and adults. The battery consists of modifications of traditional measures (e.g., Trail Making Test, verbal fluency test, design fluency test) as well as newer measures (a sorting test, a word-context test). Each measure has multiple component scores, allowing for a process approach to the assessment of executive functioning. [first published in 2001 by U.S. neuropsychologists Dean C. Delis (1951–  ), Edith Kaplan, and Joel H. Kramer]