WAIS- what does it stand for? correct answers Wechsler adult intelligence scale
What did the WAIS supplant and what did it fix? correct answers Supplanted the Wechsler Bellevue and corrected some of the earlier scale's technical deficiencies with regard to size and representatives of the normati...
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WAIS- what does it stand for? correct answers Wechsler adult intelligence scale
What did the WAIS supplant and what did it fix? correct answers Supplanted the Wechsler
Bellevue and corrected some of the earlier scale's technical deficiencies with regard to size and
representatives of the normative sample and reliability of the subtests
What age does the WAIS test? correct answers 16-74
WISC- what does it stand for? correct answers Wechsler intelligence scale for children
What was the WISC for and how was it made? correct answers downward expansion of the
Wechsler-Bellevue. Many items were taken directly from the adult test and easier items of the
same type wee added to each subtest.
What age is the WISC for? correct answers 5-15
WPPSI, what does it stand for? correct answers Wechsler preschool primary scale
What age is the WPPSI for? correct answers 2.5-4
What does the WIAT stand for? correct answers Wechsler individual achievement test
What does the WMS stand for? correct answers Wechsler memory system test
What is the same and different between the different Wechslers? correct answers -Don't have
same sub-scales for each one, but have same way of reporting (same mean and SD)
What happens to IQ over time? correct answers -very stable throughout ages
-remains the same over time regardless of education
What is it important to differentiate between? correct answers IQ and achievement
What are Wechsler scales used to measure? correct answers General intelligence, as well as a
possible aid in psychiatric diagnosis
What did the original Wechsler do? correct answers The Wechsler Bellevue set a basic pattern
for all subsequent Wechsler intelligence scales
What is the first subtest to be administered in Wechslers? correct answers Information subtest is
the first verbal subtest to be administered in all three scales (WISC, WAIS, WPPSI) and serves
as a good rapport building.
What is another subtest shared by all three Wechsler scales? correct answers Picture completion
, abbreviated Wechslers? correct answers a large number of abbreviated scales or short forms have
been proposed for the Wechsler-scales; goal is to reduce the administration time substantially
while obtaining an estimated Full Scale IQ
How many in a normative sample for Wechslers? correct answers include approximately 2,000
cases for each scale, equal in males and females
What do the Wechsler scales provide? correct answers split-half reliability coefficients for each
age group on each subtest score, index score, and IQ
What was most improved in each successive manual of the Wechsler? correct answers Validity
What should tested intelligence be regarded as? correct answers descriptive not an explanatory
concept
What is an IQ an expression of? correct answers an individual's ability level at a given point in
time, in relation to the available age norms
What does MMPI stand for? correct answers Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Conception of the MMPI correct answers -in the 1930's by Starke R. Hathaway, a clinical
psychologist, and J. Charnley McKinley, a neuropsychiatrist.
-It was initially published through a series of articles in the 1940s to serve as an aid in the
process of psychiatric diagnosis
How many questions in the MMPI-2? correct answers 567 true/false questions
MMPI-2, first 370 items correct answers -virtually identical to those in the MMPI except for
editorial changes and reordering, provided all the responses needed to score the original 10
"clinical" and three "validity" scales.
What are the ten clinical scales on the MMPI-2? correct answers 1. HS: Hypochondriasis
2. D: Depression
3. Hy: Hysteria
4. Pd: Psychopathic deviate
5. Mf: Masculinity-femininity
6. Pa: Paranoia
7. Pt: Psychasthenia
8. Sc: Schizophrenia
9. Ma: Mania
0. Si: Social interversion
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