Cultural Aspects of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale in Relation to British Mental Patients

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is now rapidly replacing the Wechsler-Bellevue as the major battery used by British clinical psychologists to test intelligence or intellectual deterioration. The following investigation was conducted to ascertain divergences in British mental patients from the American order of difficulty of items in the Information, Vocabulary and Picture Completion Tests, where both obvious and subtle cultural factors are present. The equivalence of certain possible substitute items was also explored.

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Effects of Reduced Visual Acuity on Performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ◽

10.1177/0145482x8107500107 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 25-27

Author(s):

Steven M. Kastenbaum

Keyword(s):

Visual Acuity ◽

Digit Symbol ◽

Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Intelligence Scale ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Adult Intelligence ◽

Picture Arrangement ◽

Picture Completion ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence

In administering the complete Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, the psychologist may not be able to determine whether a low score is due to reduced vision or to reduced ability to perform a task. This study, however, revealed that simulation of 20/200 visual acuity results in significantly reduced performance on the scale's Digit Symbol Subtest, Picture Completion Subtest, and Picture Arrangement Subtest.

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Alexithymia and Visual Perception

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1996.83.1.291 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 83 (1) ◽

pp. 291-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

André P. Duchesneau

Keyword(s):

Visual Perception ◽

Screening Test ◽

Digit Symbol ◽

Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Intelligence Scale ◽

Toronto Alexithymia Scale ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Adult Intelligence ◽

Picture Completion ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence

60 subjects were administered the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, a screening test for alexithymia, and categorized by the usual scoring procedure. Each subject was then given the six Performance subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised which address aspects of visual perception, organization, and construction. Analysis indicated that the alexithymic group scored significantly lower on two tests of visual perception, Picture Completion and Digit Symbol of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Revised.

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Comparison of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Indices of Cerebral Dysfunction

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1977.45.2.607 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 607-615 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

A. T. Vogt ◽

Robert K. Heaton

Keyword(s):

Extreme Values ◽

Block Design ◽

Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Intelligence Scale ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Adult Intelligence ◽

Cerebral Dysfunction ◽

Impaired Group ◽

Picture Completion ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence

This study assessed and compared the diagnostic accuracies of eight cerebral dysfunction indices based upon the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). Patients with extreme values of the Halstead Impairment Index were used to compose Impaired and Not Impaired groups. The Impaired group did significantly worse than the Not Impaired group on all 11 WAIS subtests, and there was little overlap between the groups in Full Scale IQ. The WAIS cerebral dysfunction indices ignore such differences in over-all level of performance and instead use patterns of subtest scores in making diagnostic classifications. Seven of the eight indices predicted impairment status at levels which exceed chance, but the total correct classification rates were quite modest. Statistical correction for group age differences reduced classification rates even more. Deviation score analyses were employed to assess relative strengths and deficits on the WAIS subtests, controlled for over-all level of performance. Compared to the Not-impaired group, Impaired subjects did relatively poorly on Block Design and Object Assembly, and relatively well on Information, Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Picture Completion. Significant education effects and education by impairment status interactions also occurred for several subtests. It was concluded that the WAIS indices have limited value in screening for cerebral dysfunction, and reasons for this were discussed.

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Geschlechtseffekte bei Intelligenz- und Gedächtnisleistungen

Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie ◽

10.1024/1016-264x/a000144 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 5-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anja C. Lepach ◽

Wiebke Reimers ◽

Franz Pauls ◽

Franz Petermann ◽

Monika Daseking

Keyword(s):

Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Intelligence Scale ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Adult Intelligence ◽

Wechsler Memory Scale ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence

Diese Studie untersucht die Zusammenhänge von Intelligenz- und Gedächtnisleistungen in der Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV und der Wechsler Memory Scale-IV unter Berücksichtigung des Geschlechts (N = 137 Gesunde, 63 w/74 m). Ein Vorteil der weiblichen Testpersonen im verbalen episodischen Gedächtnis sowie in einzelnen Aufgaben zur Verarbeitungsgeschwindigkeit konnte beobachtet werden. Die männlichen Testpersonen schnitten in den Untertests Allgemeines Wissen und Visuelle Puzzles besser ab. Wie gut Gedächtnisleistungen Intelligenzleistungen erklären beziehungsweise vorhersagen, ist aufgrund unserer Ergebnisse nicht nur abhängig von den Aufgaben, sondern auch vom Geschlecht.

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Analyse von Querschnittsdaten zur Intelligenzentwicklung im Erwachsenenalter: eine Studie zur deutschsprachigen Version der WAIS-IV

Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie ◽

10.1024/1016-264x/a000098 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 149-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Monika Daseking ◽

Franz Petermann

Keyword(s):

Fourth Edition ◽

Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Intelligence Scale ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽

Adult Intelligence ◽

Wechsler Adult Intelligence ◽

Deutschsprachige Version

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird der Datensatz (N = 1664), aus dem auch die Normstichprobe für die deutschsprachige Version der Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) gezogen wurde, nach altersabhängigen Veränderungen kognitiver Fähigkeiten analysiert. Die niedrigsten Rohwertmittelwerte werden in der ältesten Altersgruppe erreicht, die Leistungsspitzen finden sich überwiegend im Altersbereich zwischen 20 und 29 Jahren. In den Untertests der Indizes Wahrnehmungsgebundenes Logisches Denken und Verarbeitungsgeschwindigkeit kommt es zu einer bedeutsamen Leistungsabnahme mit zunehmendem Alter: In der ältesten Altersgruppe werden nur noch zwischen 50 und 60 % der Rohwertmittelwerte der leistungsstärksten Altersgruppe erreicht. Gleichzeitig nimmt die Heterogenität in der Rohwertverteilung zu. Für die Indizes Sprachverständnis und Arbeitsgedächtnis fallen beide Effekte deutlich niedriger aus.

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