(D-KEFS), children with and without a diagnosis of FAS completed fewer sorts than control children and received fewer points for their description of their sorts (McGee, Schonfeld, et al., 2008). Not only were alcohol-exposed children less able to generate concepts independently, they were less able to recognize categories when cued by the examiner. Furthermore, on the California Word Context Test of the D-KEFS, a test that assesses concept formation and reasoning in the verbal domain, children with prenatal exposure to alcohol needed more sentences to form a correct response and made more set loss errors (Mattson & Riley, 1999). Combined, these findings suggest that individuals with histories of prenatal alcohol exposure have difficulties forming and shifting concepts and thinking analytically, which in turn, impair their problem-solving abilities.
