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| What is the current edition of the WAIS? |
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| What are two other derivatives of the WAIS? |
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| The WAIS for Children and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence |
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| What does WAIS stand for? |
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| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
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| What does the WAIS contain? |
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| 14 subtests grouped into a Verbal Scale and a Performance Scale |
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| What are the 6 standard subtests in the WAIS Verbal Scale? |
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| Vocabulary, Similarities, Arithmetic, Digit Span, Information, and Comprehension (DAVIS.C) |
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| What are the 5 subtests in the WAIS Performance Scale? |
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| Picture Completion, Digit Scale-Coding, Block Design, Matrix Reasoning, and Picture Arrangement.... |
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| What are three additional subtests in the WAIS? |
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| Letter-Number Sequencing in the Verbal Scale and Symbol Search and Object Assembly in the Performance Scale |
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| What are the 2 optional procedures in the WAIS? |
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| Digit Symbol-Incidental Learning and Digit Symbol-Copy |
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| What is Performance Scale IQ also called? |
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| What does Object Assembly do? |
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| Provides useful clinical info about perceptual organization. |
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| What are "Indexes" based on? |
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| What is the structure of the WAIS similar to? |
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| WAIS-R; it retains 68% (or 113 items) of material used in the WAIS. |
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| What is one of the primary differences between the WAIS-R and the WAIS-III? |
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| The WAIS III covers a broader age range. |
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| What were the demographic characteristics used to obtain a stratified sample of people for the WAIS-III? |
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| Age, sex, ehtnicity, educational level, and geographic region |
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| The WAIS-III uses what standard scores for the Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQs? |
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| What scaled scores does the WAIS-III use for the 14 subtests? |
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| By comparing a person's cores with scores earned by a representative sample of their age group. |
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