Administration
When administering the Block Design subtest, how should you place the blocks in front of the participant?
For 2-block designs: Any solid face and one half-and-half
For 4-block designs: One white, one red, and two half-and-half
For 9-block designs: Two half-and-half and the rest a mix of red and white
Place them on the right side if the participant is right-handed and left if left-handed
This subtest is most likely impacted if the participant speaks English as a second language.
What is the VCI?
This is the theory that the WAIS-IV is based off of.
What is the Carroll-Horn-Cattell (CHC) theory?
What is the mean and standard deviation of the WAIS subtests?
Bonus question: What kind of score are subtest scores?
Mean=10
SD=3
Bonus answer: T-scores, which always have a mean of 10 and SD of 3
Which of the following is NOT a core subtest of the WAIS-IV?
A. Block Design
B. Comprehension
C. Digit Span
D. Symbol Search
B. Comprehension
You are administering Vocabulary and are one wrong response away from the discontinue rule. The examinee gives a response that is ambiguous as to whether it is 1 point or 0 points. What should you do?
Test the limits by administering the next question until you are certain you reach the discontinue rule.
What is index interpretation?
These indexes are most likely and least likely to be impacted by TBIs, ADHD, ASD, dementia, etc.?
What are PSI and VCI indices?
What are the mean and standard deviation of the FSIQ?
Mean=100
SD=15
Digit Span, Arithmetic, and Letter-Number Sequencing
What are the subtests that make up the Working Memory Index (WMI)?
True or False?: You cannot repeat questions on the Arithmetic subtest.
False. You can repeat the questions one time after administering them.
This cannot happen when two indices scaled scores differ by more than 23 points.
What is FSIQ, GAI, and CPI interpretation?
For every decade the WAIS-IV has been out, Americans have increased their IQ by 3 points per decade between the 1930s and 1990s.
What is the Flynn Effect?
If a participant scores a 79 on PRI, which is significantly lower than their other indices and is uncommon in the normal population, then this score would be best described as what?
A high-priority concern.
Due to an administration error, the Block Design subtest was spoiled. Which subtest(s) could be substituted?
Figure Weights or Picture Completion
How should you apply the reverse rule?
Administer preceding un-administered items in backwards order until 2 full-point scores are achieved.
FSIQ is most indicative of this theoretical concept.
What is g?
A score new to the WAIS-IV that includes information only from the VCI and PRI.
What is the GAI?
68% of the time, a score will fall within the specified range on a second testing.
What does it mean to say that a score falls within 1 SEM (standard error of measurement?)
Letter-Number Sequencing, Block Design, and Digit Span
Which subtests offer process scores?
Which subtests are timed?
Cancellation, Symbol Search, Coding, Block Design, Arithmetic, Visual Puzzles, and Figure Weights
Crystallized intelligence, short term memory, fluid reasoning, processing speed, and visual processing are all included in this type of analysis.
What are the Keith Five Factors?
Figure weights, Cancellation, and Visual Puzzles
What tests are new to the WAIS-IV compared to the WAIS III?
What are the rules regarding subtest substitutions?
You can only substitute one subtest per index.
An abnormally large discrepancy between PRI and VCI means it is:
A. Rare among the normal population
B. Equivalent to a statistically significant discrepancy
C. At least a 50-point discrepancy
D. At least a 5-point discrepancy
A. Rare among the normal population