WAIS-IV Questions with Correct Answers
a.
All of the following are principles of the intelligent testing philosophy
EXCEPT:
Subtests measure what the individual has learned.
(b) Subtests are samples of behavior and not exhaustive.
(c) Behavioral observations and background information are of little
importance
in interpreting a person's test profile.
(d) Test batteries are optimally useful when interpreted from a
theoretical model.
(e) IQ tests assess mental functioning under fixed experimental
conditions. Correct Answer-(c) Behavioral observations and background
information are of little importance
in interpreting a person's test profile.
Which one of the following WAIS-IV subtests is NOT especially
vulnerable
to distractibility?
a) Digit Span
(b) Symbol Search
(c) Picture Completion
,(d) Coding
(e) Arithmetic Correct Answer-(c) Picture Completion
Which WAIS-IV subtest is affected by a person's visual-perceptual
problems
and also has a long research history as being especially vulnerable to
brain
damage?
a) Vocabulary
(b) Block Design
(c) Visual Puzzles
(d) Arithmetic
(e) Digit Span Forward Correct Answer-b) Block Design
Which of the following WAIS-IV subtests BEST provides clinical
information
about a person's ability to express his or her ideas in words and to
provide
possible insight into the person's fears,
a) Information
(b) Picture Completion
(c) Letter-Number Sequencing
, (d) Vocabulary
(e) Block Design Correct Answer-(d) Vocabulary
Which WAIS-IV subtest (apart from Arithmetic) is most likely to be
viewed
as a math-like test by examinees who are ''mathematically minded'' or
who
are skilled in the concepts of algebra?
(a) Figure Weights
(b) Block Design
(c) Visual Puzzles Correct Answer-(a) Figure Weights
A major limitation of Watkins and Canivez's critique of the Kaufman-
Lichtenberger ipsative approach to Wechsler interpretation is their
failure
to
(a) take into account that hypotheses are generated from multiple
sources of
data, not just by test scores.
(b) use an adult test like the WAIS-III instead of the WISC-III, a
children's test.
(c) perform any type psychometric analysis of their data.
a.
All of the following are principles of the intelligent testing philosophy
EXCEPT:
Subtests measure what the individual has learned.
(b) Subtests are samples of behavior and not exhaustive.
(c) Behavioral observations and background information are of little
importance
in interpreting a person's test profile.
(d) Test batteries are optimally useful when interpreted from a
theoretical model.
(e) IQ tests assess mental functioning under fixed experimental
conditions. Correct Answer-(c) Behavioral observations and background
information are of little importance
in interpreting a person's test profile.
Which one of the following WAIS-IV subtests is NOT especially
vulnerable
to distractibility?
a) Digit Span
(b) Symbol Search
(c) Picture Completion
,(d) Coding
(e) Arithmetic Correct Answer-(c) Picture Completion
Which WAIS-IV subtest is affected by a person's visual-perceptual
problems
and also has a long research history as being especially vulnerable to
brain
damage?
a) Vocabulary
(b) Block Design
(c) Visual Puzzles
(d) Arithmetic
(e) Digit Span Forward Correct Answer-b) Block Design
Which of the following WAIS-IV subtests BEST provides clinical
information
about a person's ability to express his or her ideas in words and to
provide
possible insight into the person's fears,
a) Information
(b) Picture Completion
(c) Letter-Number Sequencing
, (d) Vocabulary
(e) Block Design Correct Answer-(d) Vocabulary
Which WAIS-IV subtest (apart from Arithmetic) is most likely to be
viewed
as a math-like test by examinees who are ''mathematically minded'' or
who
are skilled in the concepts of algebra?
(a) Figure Weights
(b) Block Design
(c) Visual Puzzles Correct Answer-(a) Figure Weights
A major limitation of Watkins and Canivez's critique of the Kaufman-
Lichtenberger ipsative approach to Wechsler interpretation is their
failure
to
(a) take into account that hypotheses are generated from multiple
sources of
data, not just by test scores.
(b) use an adult test like the WAIS-III instead of the WISC-III, a
children's test.
(c) perform any type psychometric analysis of their data.
