NEPSY-II Affect Recognition

This subtest is a nonverbal measure of the participant's ability to identify emotions of children in photographs. Types of emotions presented include happy, sad, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral. The subtest has four subsets of tasks that vary in instruction and involve: (1) stating if two faces have the same affect, (2) selecting two faces with the same affect, (3) selecting the face that matches the affect of the face at the top of the page, and (4) choosing two faces from memory that match the affect of a previously shown face. In the third trial type, there are two items presented on each page, and the item not being administered is covered by the examiner to reduce distraction. The Affect Recognition subtest demonstrates adequate to good test-retest reliability (*r* = 0.46–0.66). Raw and standard scores were used for analyses.
