Zelazo Philip David
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada.
Nat Protoc. 2006;1(1):297-301. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2006.46.
The dimensional change card sort (DCCS) is an easily administered and widely used measure of executive function that is suitable for use with participants across a wide range of ages. In the standard version, children are required to sort a series of bivalent test cards, first according to one dimension (e.g., color), and then according to the other (e.g., shape). Most 3-year-olds perseverate during the post-switch phase, exhibiting a pattern of inflexibility similar to that seen in patients with prefrontal cortical damage. By 5 years of age, most children switch when instructed to do so. Performance on the DCCS provides an index of the development of executive function, and it is impaired in children with disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism. We describe the protocol for the standard version (duration = 5 min) and the more challenging border version (duration = 5 min), which may be used with children as old as 7 years.
维度变化卡片分类任务(DCCS)是一种易于实施且广泛使用的执行功能测量方法,适用于各个年龄段的参与者。在标准版本中,要求儿童对一系列二值测试卡片进行分类,首先根据一个维度(如颜色),然后根据另一个维度(如形状)。大多数3岁儿童在转换阶段会出现持续性错误,表现出一种类似于前额叶皮质损伤患者的不灵活模式。到5岁时,大多数儿童在接到指示后会进行转换。DCCS任务的表现提供了执行功能发展的指标,并且在患有注意力缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)和自闭症等疾病的儿童中受损。我们描述了标准版本(时长 = 5分钟)和更具挑战性的边界版本(时长 = 5分钟)的方案,这些方案可用于7岁以下的儿童。