Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) || with 100% Accurate Solutions.
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale || wit
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale || Wit
FSIQ correct answers -Most valid measure of overall cog. ability
-Consists of all 10 subtests
-No more than two substitutions allowed.
GAI correct answers -Sum scaled scores of three VC and three PR subtests
-Alternative composite score to the FSIQ; Less sensitive to working memory and proces...
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) || with 100%
Accurate Solutions.
FSIQ correct answers -Most valid measure of overall cog. ability
-Consists of all 10 subtests
-No more than two substitutions allowed.
GAI correct answers -Sum scaled scores of three VC and three PR subtests
-Alternative composite score to the FSIQ; Less sensitive to working memory and processing
speed influences. (I.e. poor scores on WMI & PSI)
-No more than two substitutions allowed.
Index Scores correct answers -VCI
-PRI
-WMI
-PSI
-Only one supplemental subtest substitution is allowed per Index score.
Verbal Comprehension correct answers Index - comprehension of verbal stimuli, semantic
reasoning, communicate thoughts and ideas through words (imperative for functioning in a
modern society).
, Similarities correct answers -Measures verbal concept formation, abstract verbal reasoning,
categorical thinking, and the ability to distinguish between non-essential and essential features
Vocabulary correct answers -Measures verbal concept formation, language development, word
knowledge, requires long-term memory.
Information correct answers -Measures fund of knowledge, long-term memory and retrieval,
verbal comprehension and crystallized intelligence
Comprehension correct answers -Measures verbal conceptualization, verbal expression, practical
knowledge, social judgment, crystallized intelligence and common sense.
Perceptual Reasoning correct answers Index - Primarily fluid reasoning with some perceptual
organization
Block Design correct answers -Measures nonverbal reasoning; analysis and synthesis; visual
perception and organization; visual-motor coordination.
Picture Completion correct answers -Measures visual perception, perceptual organization, and
attention to detail.
Working Memory correct answers -Index
-Measures attention, concentration and working memory. "can be thought of as mental control
(an executive process) involving reasonably higher-order tasks (rather than rote tasks), and it
presumes attention and concentration."
-"episodic buffer" as a crucial feature of the capacity of working memory to act as a global
workspace accessed by conscious awareness.
Arithmetic correct answers -Measures working memory, mental manipulation, attention,
concentration, sequential processing, and numerical reasoning.
Letter-Number Sequencing correct answers -Measures working memory, mental manipulation,
attention, concentration, short term-auditory memory.
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