CHC in Action
This broad ability involves vocabulary and knowledge acquired through learning and experience, as sampled by Oral Vocabulary.
Comprehension-Knowledge (Gc)
In this WJ-V test, the examinee supplies synonyms and antonyms.
Oral Vocabulary
This test asks the examinee to say a spoken sequence of numbers in backward order.
Numbers Reversed
This broad ability is central to quickly and accurately completing simple visual matching tasks on the WJ-V.
Cognitive Processing Speed (Gs)
This broad ability involves mentally working with shapes and spatial relationships, as assessed by Spatial Relations and Block Rotation.
Visual Processing (Gv)
This broad ability helps you solve unfamiliar problems and discover or apply rules, as in Matrices and Analysis-Synthesis.
Fluid Reasoning (Gf)
In this test, the examinee selects the option that completes a visual pattern after figuring out its underlying rule.
Matrices
This test presents a spoken sequence containing animals and numbers, then asks a question about where information occurred in that sequence.
Verbal Attention
These two WJ-V tests ask the examinee to rapidly find matching strings, with one using numbers and the other using letters.
Number-Pattern Matching and Letter-Pattern Matching
This test asks the examinee to decide which two-dimensional pieces would fit together to make a target shape.
Spatial Relations
Verbal Attention and Numbers Reversed assess this ability to hold and work with information you have just heard.
Auditory Working Memory Capacity (Gwm)
This test asks the examinee to complete a relationship between words. Success draws on both word knowledge and reasoning.
Verbal Analogies
This test asks the examinee to retell a story they have heard, including as many details as they can remember.
Story Recall
This test asks the examinee to generate as many words as possible from a given meaning-based category within a time limit.
Semantic Word Retrieval
This test asks the examinee to identify three-dimensional block figures that match a target when mentally turned.
Block Rotation
The WJ-V distinguishes learning and remembering story information from rapidly producing familiar words. Name these two broad abilities, in that order.
Long-Term Storage (Gl) and Retrieval Fluency (Gr)
In this test, the examinee learns to use a key with colored squares and applies its rules to solve puzzles.
Analysis-Synthesis
This test asks specific questions about a story the examinee has heard, rather than asking for a free retelling.
Story Comprehension
This test asks the examinee to generate words beginning with a specified speech sound within a time limit.
Phonemic Word Retrieval
Imagining how a shape or block figure would look after being turned is this mental operation, used in both Gv tests assigned for Week 4.
Mental rotation
This WJ-V composite combines acquired knowledge and reasoning without including dedicated working-memory or processing-speed tests.
Gf-Gc Composite
Matrices emphasizes discovering a rule from a pattern; Analysis-Synthesis emphasizes applying taught rules. Name these two types of reasoning, respectively.
Inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning
All four tests in these categories involve listening. However, Verbal Attention and Numbers Reversed primarily assess one broad ability, while Story Recall and Story Comprehension assess another. Name both.
Gwm and Gl, respectively. Gwm involves holding and working with information in immediate awareness; Gl involves learning and retaining information.
Number-Pattern Matching and Semantic Word Retrieval are both timed, but they primarily assess different broad abilities. Name the ability measured by each, in that order.
Gs and Gr. Gs concerns efficient simple processing; Gr concerns fluent retrieval of stored information.
An examiner labels Matrices a Gv test simply because it uses pictures. Give the correct primary CHC classification and explain why.
Fluid Reasoning (Gf). Its central demand is discovering the rule or relationship in the pattern. Visual presentation alone does not make a task a Gv measure.