Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment)

Essentials of WAIS®-IV Assessment......Page 7
0471738468......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 11
SERIES PREFACE......Page 13
PREFACE......Page 15
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 23
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 25
BINET-SIMON SCALES......Page 26
TERMAN’S STANFORD-BINET......Page 27
WECHSLER’S CREATIVITY......Page 28
WAIS-IV AND ITS PREDECESSORS......Page 31
WECHSLER-BELLEVUE SUBTESTS THAT SURVIVE ON THE WAIS-IV......Page 32
PURPOSES OF ASSESSING ADULTS AND ADOLESCENTS......Page 43
FOUNDATIONS OF THE WAIS-IV: THEORY AND RESEARCH......Page 44
STANDARDIZATION AND PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE WAIS-IV......Page 58
COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCES ON TEST......Page 62
TEST YOURSELF......Page 63
APPROPRIATE TESTING CONDITIONS......Page 65
RAPPORT WITH EXAMINEE......Page 67
TESTING INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS......Page 69
ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERATIONS......Page 70
SUBTEST-BY-SUBTEST RULES OF ADMINISTRATION......Page 78
TEST YOURSELF......Page 105
THOUGHT QUESTIONS......Page 107
TYPES OF SCORES......Page 109
STEP-BY-STEP: HOW THE WAIS-IV IS SCORED......Page 110
TEST YOURSELF......Page 128
INTELLIGENT TESTING PHILOSOPHY......Page 130
QUALITATIVE AND CLINICAL ANALYSES OF THE WAIS-IV......Page 138
SUBTEST-BY-SUBTEST QUALITATIVE AND CLINICAL ANALYSES......Page 142
WATKINS AND CANIVEZ’S CRITIQUE OF OUR INTERPRETIVE SYSTEM AND ARTICULATION OF A NEW THEORY-BASED APPROACH TO PROFILE INTERPRETATION......Page 157
FLANAGAN AND KAUFMAN’S (2004) REVISIONS OF TRADITIONAL IPSATIVE ANALYSIS......Page 165
CONCLUDING COMMENTS......Page 167
TEST YOURSELF......Page 168
INTRODUCTION TO INTERPRETATION......Page 170
STEPS 1–3: ANALYZE THE FSIQ AND THE INDEX PROFILE......Page 173
INTRODUCTION TO STEPS 4–9: TWO PATHS OF INTERPRETATION......Page 182
ANALYZE PLANNED CLINICAL COMPARISONS WHEN THE REQUISITE WAIS-IV SUBTESTS ARE ADMINISTERED......Page 209
TEST YOURSELF......Page 229
INTRODUCTION......Page 232
LEVELS OF INTERPRETATION......Page 234
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAIS-IV PERFORMANCE......Page 241
WHAT DO THE VERBAL COMPREHENSION SUBTESTS MEASURE?......Page 243
WHAT DO THE PERCEPTUAL REASONING SUBTESTS MEASURE?......Page 245
WHAT DO THE WORKING MEMORY SUBTESTS MEASURE?......Page 249
WHAT DO THE PROCESSING SPEED SUBTESTS MEASURE?......Page 252
LEARNING DISABILITY ASSESSMENT AND THE WAIS-IV......Page 255
CONSTRAINTS ON LEARNING AND PRODUCTION......Page 256
CONCEPTIONS OF LEARNING DISABILITY......Page 258
ABILITY AND ACHIEVEMENT DEFICIT MODEL OF LEARNING DISABILITY......Page 260
REPORTING WAIS-IV RESULTS IN AN INTEGRATED REPORT FORMAT......Page 261
TEST YOURSELF......Page 267
Seven: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS II: AGE AND INTELLIGENCE ACROSS THE ADULT LIFE SPAN......Page 269
DO COGNITIVE ABILITIES DECLINE WITH ADVANCING AGE? A CROSS-SECTIONAL APPROACH......Page 270
DOES IQ DECLINE WITH ADVANCING AGE? A LONGITUDINAL APPROACH......Page 283
TWO GROUNDBREAKING LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF IQ AND AGING......Page 287
LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF WECHSLER’S SCALES USING INDEPENDENT SAMPLES......Page 290
LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF WAIS-III AND WAIS-IV FACTOR INDEXES......Page 296
INTERPRETATION OF COGNITIVE DECLINE: SPEED OR PROBLEM SOLVING......Page 300
CAN COGNITIVE DECLINE BE SLOWED OR PREDICTED IN ADVANCE?......Page 304
TEST YOURSELF......Page 307
Eight: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS III: WAIS-IV USE WITH SPECIAL GROUPS AND PRACTICE EFFECTS IN NORMAL SAMPLES......Page 309
INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISTIC DISORDER AND ASPERGER’S DISORDER......Page 311
INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED......Page 312
INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY OR BORDERLINE INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING......Page 313
INDIVIDUALS WITH ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER......Page 314
INDIVIDUALS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN READING OR MATHEMATICS......Page 316
INDIVIDUALS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY......Page 317
INDIVIDUALS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSION......Page 318
INDIVIDUALS WITH PROBABLE ALZHEIMER’S-TYPE DEMENTIA AND MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT......Page 319
COMPARISON OF THE VERBAL COMPREHENSION INDEX AND THE PERCEPTUAL REASONING INDEX FOR THE CLINICAL SAMPLES......Page 320
COMPARISONS INVOLVING THE FSIQ, GAI, AND CPI FOR THE CLINICAL SAMPLES......Page 322
COMPARISON OF THE WORKING MEMORY INDEX AND THE PROCESSING SPEED INDEX FOR THE CLINICAL SAMPLES......Page 325
CLINICAL SAMPLES WITH RELATIVELY LOW SCORES ON THE PROCESSING SPEED INDEX......Page 326
UTILITY OF THE PROCESS APPROACH......Page 327
CLINICAL SAMPLES WITH NOTABLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SCALED SCORES ON DIGITS FORWARD AND DIGITS BACKWARD......Page 328
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE WAIS-IV PROFILES OF SELECT CLINICAL SAMPLES......Page 329
INTERPRETATION OF GAIN SCORES FOR NORMAL SAMPLES......Page 330
GAIN SCORE ON FSIQ Age Group WAIS-III WAIS-IV......Page 332
TEST YOURSELF......Page 334
STRENGTHS OF THE WAIS-IV......Page 335
WEAKNESSES OF THE WAIS-IV......Page 343
FINAL COMMENT......Page 350
TEST YOURSELF......Page 352
Ten: ILLUSTRATIVE CASE REPORTS......Page 353
CASE REPORT: LAURA O., AGE 17, IMPAIRED SOCIAL SKILLS, POOR MOTIVATION, AND WEAK ATTENTION ABILITIES......Page 354
CASE REPORT: JIM W., AGE 64, POSSIBLE DEMENTIA......Page 373
TEST YOURSELF......Page 387
References......Page 388
Annotated Bibliography......Page 404
About the Authors......Page 406
Index......Page 407
About the CD-ROM......Page 425