APA Dictionary of Psychology

a verbal and nonverbal memory test that is used to detect neuropsychological deficits. In the Recognition Memory for Words subtest of the RMT, participants are presented with 50 stimulus words, one every 3 seconds, and must respond whether they consider each pleasant or unpleasant. Following the presentation of all 50 stimuli, each word is presented again with a distractor item, and participants must choose which of the two words was presented previously. The procedure is the same for the Recognition Memory for Faces subtest, in which the stimuli used are photographs of unfamiliar faces. Also called Warrington Recognition Memory Test. [originally developed in 1984 by British neuropsychologist Elizabeth Kerr Warrington]