WAIS III v. WAIS-IV
Social Cognition Factor
Potpourri
Schizophrenia
Wechsler or Not
100
These two indices were collapsed in the updating of the WAIS III to the WAIS IV. Instead, clinicians now focus on 4 smaller, individual indices.
What are the VIQ and PIQ?
100
This assessment has several subtests that load onto the Social Cognition Index, including Picture Arrangement.
What is the WAIS-III?
100
In the 2009 film "The Soloist," Jamie Foxx portrays a musician who develops this mental illness.
What is schizophrenia?
100
This type of impairment associated with schizophrenia cannot be treated with medication.
What is cognitive impairment?
100
This person objected to the single score offered by the 1937 Binet scale.
Who is David Wechsler?
200
These subtests were added to the WAIS-IV when it was updated from the WAIS III.
What are Visual Puzzles, Figure Weights, and Cancellation?
200
This is measured by the social cognition factor.
What are social perception and social knowledge?
200
This famous theoretical physicist said, “I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers”
Who is Stephen Hawking?
200
These two factors affect a person's risk of developing schizophrenia.
What are environmental and genetic factors?
200
This person theorized the existence of fluid and crystallized intelligences to explain human cognitive ability, and authored the Culture Fair Intelligence Test to minimize the bias of written language and cultural background in intelligence testing.
Who is Raymond Cattell?
300
This index on the WAIS-IV was found to be significantly affected by impairment caused by schizophrenia.
What is the Processing Speed Scale?
300
Picture Arrangement, Picture Completion, and Object Assembly all involve analysis of drawings depicting this. Subjects need to identify particular details to perform successfully.
What are social situations? (people) (objects)
300
This Nobel Prize-winning mathematician was known for his genius as well as his paranoid schizophrenia, and was depicted in the movie, "A Beautiful Mind."
Who is Dr. John Forbes Nash Jr.?
300
This structural brain abnormality is associated with schizophrenia.
What are enlarged ventricles?
300
This person joined the Army during World War I, which brought him into contact with several pioneers in the field of intelligence theory, including Karl Pearson, Charles Spearman, and Edward Thorndike.
Who is David Wechsler?
400
Factorial analyses of the WAIS III and WAIS IV show that this additional index loads on some subtests, particularly Picture Completion and Picture Arrangement.
What is the Social Cognition Index?
400
For the 11 subtest combinations used in the Allen (2009) study, the Social Cognition Index comprised of these two subtests of the WAIS-III provided the best fit of data in comparison to other three-factor models.
What are Picture Completion and Picture Arrangement?
400
This famous football player was drafted by coach Vince Lombardi and enjoyed an eleven-year NFL career as a Green Bay Packer. In the late 1970's he developed paranoid schizophrenia and was briefly homeless as a result.
Who is Lionel Aldridge?
400
Cognitive impairment occurs in this percentage of people who have schizophrenia.
What is 75%-85%?
400
This person, know for his work with cats, said, “If something actually did exist, it existed in some amount and hence could be measured.”
Who is Edward Thorndike?
500
This "symptom" of schizophrenia makes a subtest involving explanation of proverbs or metaphors especially difficult for subjects with schizophrenia.
What is "unsusual and idiosyncratic thinking?"
500
According to Allen's (2009) study, when 14 subtests of the WAIS-III were used in factorial analyses, a Social Cognition Index comprised of these 3 subtests provided the best fit of data.
What are Picture Arrangement, Picture Completion, and Object Assembly?
500
This famous actor is rumored to have an IQ score of 142, majored in philosophy at Cal State, and is known for being an excellent banjo player.
Who is Steve Martin?
500
This study suggests that that cognitive impairment is already present at the onset of the illness and remains stable over the early course of schizophrenia.
What is Albus et al.?
500
This person studied experimental psychology at the University of Paris from 1919-1922.
Who is David Wechsler?
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