Validity of the 16PF Reasoning Ability Scale

1998 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 904-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Millicent H. Abel ◽  
L. Katherine Brown
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Reasoning Ability ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Verbal Scale ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence ◽  
Performance Scale

The construct validity of the 16PF Reasoning Ability Scale was tested against the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Revised (WAIS–R) with 60 undergraduate students. Moderate correlations were obtained between scores on the reasoning scale and the WAIS–R Full Scale, Verbal Scale, and Performance Scale (.57, .44, .51, respectively). The strongest correlations between scores on the reasoning scale and WAIS–R subtests were obtained for Information and Block Design. These data indicate modest support for the validity of the 16PF Reasoning Ability Scale as a measure of intelligence.

Relationships among Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Goodenough-Harris, and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Tests with Institutionalized Retarded Adults

1971 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Wells ◽  
Duilio T. Pedrini
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Verbal Scale ◽  
Quality Scale ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence ◽  
Performance Scale

Test data for 150 adult institutionalized retardates were subjected to a two-factor analysis of variance with repeated measures (tests) on one factor. The matched male ( n = 32) and female ( n = 32) groups showed no sex differences but significant test differences. On the Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Man, the Woman Point scale mean IQs were lower than the Man Point scale means. The Point scale means were significantly lower than the Quality scale means for all three drawings (Man, Woman, Self). Correlations of the Goodenough-Harris IQs with WAIS and PPVT IQs were lower for women than for men. The Goodenough-Harris IQ scores correlated better with the WAIS Performance scale IQ than with the Verbal scale IQ. PPVT IQs tended to fall between the WAIS Verbal and Performance scale IQs but correlated better with the Verbal scale than with the Performance scale. The PPVT, a vocabulary measure, was a somewhat better over-all predictor of the WAIS IQ than the Goodenough-Harris drawings.

Forecasting Recidivism in Delinquency by Intelligence and Related Constructs

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Richter ◽  
Heinz Scheurer ◽  
Winfried Barnett ◽  
Hans Ludwig Kröber
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
External Control ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Verbal Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence ◽  
Intelligence Test Scores

In a longitudinal survey of 122 healthy criminal offenders aged 18 to 37 years, the relationship between intelligence measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), neuropsychological scales and delinquency was investigated. The Benton Test correlates well with the WAIS and moderately with offence data, but not with recidivism in delinquency. The 122 men had normal intelligence test scores (average IQ=102), but bad school and working records. The 34 per cent and 60 per cent respectively of offenders, who relapsed within the time span of 1.5 and 3 years respectively, showed significantly worse results in the Verbal Scale and in the Block Design of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale. Poor performance in the Information and the Block Design sub-tests of the WAIS, a low level of formal education and the belief in external control by circumstances and powerful others are predictors of a high risk of recidivism.

The Quick Test Compared with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale as Measures of Intellectual Functioning in a Prison Clinical Setting

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Husband ◽  
Clifford M. De Cato
Keyword(s):  
Prison Population ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Quick Test ◽  
Verbal Scale ◽  
Urban Minority ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence ◽  
Performance Scale

The Quick Test and the WAIS were administered to 40 patients (39 males, one female) in an urban prison hospital. 34 patients were black. Chronological ages of the sample ranged from 16 to 39 yr., with a mean age of 27 yr. Analysis showed a strong positive correlation between the Quick Test IQs and the WAIS Verbal Scale IQs, Performance Scale IQs, and Full Scale IQs. These findings suggest that the Quick Test provides a reasonable estimate of conventional verbal intelligence in an urban minority prison population.

Relationship between Wais—R Intelligence and the Five-Factor Model of Personality in a Normal Elderly Sample

2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1151-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristide Saggino ◽  
Michela Balsamo
Keyword(s):  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Nonclinical Sample ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence ◽  
Intelligence Scores

The present study examined associations between Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Revised (WAIS–R) scores and the five-factor model of personality, as measured by the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Both tests were administered to a nonclinical sample of 100 Italian subjects 75 years and older. Analysis showed that the NEO-PI–R Openness to Experience domain was a weak but the best predictor of the three WAIS–R intelligence scores (Total, Verbal, and Performance). Were such a relationship confirmed by further investigations, Openness could be interpreted as a factor which might mitigate intellectual impoverishment which accompanies the normal aging process.

Obtaining Factor Scores on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

1960 ◽  
Vol 106 (444) ◽  
pp. 1060-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Factor Scores ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Adult Intelligence ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence ◽  
Arbitrary Fashion

ProblemElsewhere (3) it has been argued that, when reporting a subject's results on the WISC (5), it is preferable to give them in the form of scores or intelligence quotients on orthogonal factors than as Verbal and Performance I.Q.s since the latter overlap in a rather arbitrary fashion. In this study a similar recommendation is implied when dealing with a subject's results on the WAIS (6) and the problem is to indicate how factor scores on this test can be obtained.

A neuropsychological approach to the study of gesture and pantomime in aphasa

1978 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Kadish
Keyword(s):  
Motor Activity ◽  
Intellectual Impairment ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Functional Brain ◽  
Therapeutic Implications ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Verbal Tasks ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence ◽  
Performance Scale

The impairment of  gesture and pantomime in aphasia was examined from  a neuropsychological perspective. The Boston Diagnostic Test of  Aphasia, Luria's Neuro-psychological Investigation, Pickett's Tests for  gesture and pantomime and the Performance Scale of  the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale were administered to six aphasic subjects with varying etiology and severity. Results indicated that severity of  aphasia was positively related to severity of  gestural disturbance; gestural ability was associated with verbal and non-linguistic aspects of  ability, within receptive and expressive levels respectively; performance  on gestural tasks was superior to that on verbal tasks irrespective of  severity of aphasia; damage to Luria's second and third functional  brain units were positively related to deficits  in receptive and expressive gesture respectively; no relationship was found  between seventy of  general intellectual impairment and gestural deficit.  It was concluded that the gestural impairment may best be understood as a breakdown in complex sequential manual motor activity. Theoretical and therapeutic implications were discussed.

Common Short Forms of the Spanish Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

1997 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 1121-1122
Author(s):  
Yvonne I. Demsky ◽  
Carlton S. Gass ◽  
Charles J. Golden
Keyword(s):  
Block Design ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Adult Intelligence ◽  
Short Forms ◽  
Picture Arrangement ◽  
Test Version ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence

Although the Escala de Inteligencia Wechsler (EIWA) has remained the only standard Spanish version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and is consequently the most often-used intelligence test with Spanish-speaking clients, little information exists on the psychometric properties of the test beyond the information in the test manual (Wechsler, 1968). There is no information on the validity or reliability of commonly used short forms of the test, the two-test version using Block Design and Vocabulary, and the four-test version using Block Design, Vocabulary, Arithmetic, and Picture Arrangement. Using the statistical data in the test manual, the two-test version yielded reliabilities of .94 to .95 across the three standardization age groups and validity ratings of .92 to .93. Values for the four-test version were slightly higher, and all were comparable to those for the WAIS and WAIS–R. The results suggest that the short forms can be used with the same confidence with the Spanish WAIS as on the WAIS.

Relationship between Initial Competence and Ability to Profit from Cues in Brain-Damaged Individuals

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Yehuda Ben-Yishay ◽  
Leonard Diller ◽  
Louis Gerstman ◽  
Wayne Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Linear Function ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Adult Intelligence ◽  
Current Test ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence

To study the relationships between competence and ability to profit from cues, the effects of premorbid education on current test performances, and whether the ability to profit from cues is uniform across tasks in brain-damaged persons, 62 left hemiplegics were tested consecutively on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Block Design (BD) and Similarities (SIM) tests, under standard and specially designed cuing conditions. Results indicated that the ability to profit from cues is a linear function of competence levels in both tasks. In BD, premorbid education was unrelated to either competence or cues gain. In SIM, education correlated with current competence but not with cues. No relationship was found between ability to gain from cues across tasks. Some significant clinical and theoretical implications from the data are discussed.

Assortative mating for IQ: a multivariate approach

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor ◽  
J. L. Boldsen
Keyword(s):  
Block Design ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Multivariate Approach ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
General Ability ◽  
Iq Test ◽  
Ability Factor ◽  
Wechsler Adult Intelligence

SummaryThis paper examines the similarity between husbands and wives at the IQ subtest level, using seven tests from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. There was some evidence for sex differences; husbands scored higher than their wives on three of the subtests. After logarithmic transformation of some subtests the data were shown to be consistent with multivariate normality. A simplified covariance matrix was produced. Principal component analysis revealed an underlying general ability factor but there was no simple division into verbal and into performance components as would be expected from the IQ test structure. Canonical correlation analysis indicated that there were highly variable contributions to spousal associations. The major contributors were, in decreasing order of importance, due to similarities, vocabulary, digit symbol and block design tests. One subtest, comprehension, made no overt contribution.

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