Comprehensive Affect Testing System - Reduced Battery - CATS-R

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Polish translation generously provided by Nina Prucnal

Created: January 29, 2020

Last Modified: January 02, 2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements the START script to run subtest 1, 2, and 8 of the Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R).

The CATS and CATS-R were created by: Sarah G. Schaffer, PhD Karen B. Froming, PhD Amanda L. Gregory, PhD C. Michael Levy, PhD Paul Ekman, PhD

Subtest Manuals

Cats-R: Demographic Information And Test Selection Script

Cats 1: Identity Discrimination

Cats-R 2: Affect Discrimination

Cats-R 8: Select Affect

References

Reference for Means and Standard Deviations used to calculate z-scores:

Emotion Processing: The Comprehensive Affective Testing System. User Manual. Published 2006 by Psychology Software Inc

The Polish version runs subtest1, 2, and 8 only (and in that order) Reference for Means and Standard Deviations used to calculate z-scores:

Emotion Processing: The Comprehensive Affective Testing System. User Manual. Published 2006 by Psychology Software Inc Emotion Processing: The Comprehensive Affective Testing System. User Manual. Published 2006 by Psychology Software Inc

Duration

2 minutes

Procedure

The Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R) consists of 13 subtests:

subtest1: Identity Discrimination
subtest2: Affect Discrimination
subtest3: Nonemotional Prosody Discrimination
subtest4: Emotional Prosody Discrimination
subtest5: Name Affect
subtest6: Name Emotional Prosody
subtest7: Match Affect
subtest8: Select Affect
subtest9: Conflicting Prosody - Attend to Prosody
subtest10: Conflicting Prosody - Attend to Meaning
subtest11: Match Emotional Prosody to Emotional Face
subtest12: Match Emotional Face to Emotional Prosody
subtest 13: 3 Faces Test

The Polish version runs subtest1, 2, and 8 only (and in that order)

This START script is a batch script that automatically runs

(1) cats_taskselection.iqjs: this script collects demographic information

(2) a batch of the three Polish subtests
the individual subtests cats_subtest1_polish.iqjs to cats_subtest8_polish.iqjs can be run
as single scripts as well.