Abbreviations
WAIS-5
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Fifth Edition?
The arrow pointing to an item on the record form signifies this.
What is the start point?
For many WAIS-5 subtests, the examiner does this if an imperfect score is obtained on either of the two first items
What is reverse administration until the examinee's responses yield two consecutive perfect scores?
Two subtests that are the most heavily influenced by access to formal education or academic opportunity.
What are Vocabulary and Information?
The General Ability Index is calculated by omitting which two index scores?
What are WMI and PSI?
PSI
What is the Processing Speed Index?
Two permissible prompts for WAIS-5 administration
What are:
What do you mean?
Tell me more about it.
On the WAIS-5 record form, this symbol is present on select items of Similarities, Vocabulary, and Running Digits as a prompt for the examiner to provide corrective feedback when the when the examinee's response does not meet criteria for a perfect score.
What is the cross (or dagger) symbol?
On the WAIS-5, seven subtests must be administered in order to calculate this.
What is the Full Scale IQ?
Calculating and reporting the Nonverbal Index (NVI) should be considered when evaluating someone who has these characteristics.
When the examinee has poor language skills or is being tested in a language that is not their native/primary language?
WMI
What is the Working Memory Index?
The amount of time allocated for Coding and Symbol Search
What is 120 seconds?
The immediate order in which subtasks of Digit Span are administered for WAIS-5.
What is Forward, Sequencing, and Backward?
On the WAIS-5, calculating each one of these requires the scores obtained from two separate subtests.
What are the five primary index scores?
The Nonmotor Index score should be considered when evaluating someone with these characteristics.
When the examinee has weak motor strength, poor coordination, physical injury, or very slowed processing speed?
LDSF
What is the Longest Digit Span Forward?
At least four common errors made during WAIS-5 administration.
What are: Rephrasing questions? Addition mistakes? Incorrect conversion of raw scores to standardized scores? Omitting a required query? Over-querying? Neglecting to include the points for items that come prior to the examinee's start point when calculating raw score?
Raw scores on items that are not administered should be considered in this circumstance.
What is when the basal score is obtained before the lowest possible item?
In WAIS-5, only this Digit Span sub-section is included for the calculation of the Full Scale IQ.
What is Digit Sequencing?
The two index scores with the greatest test/re-test variability AND are most susceptible to the examinee's mood/health/fatigue/level-of-attention at the time of administration
What are the WMI and the PSI?
GAI
What is the General Ability Index?
These are administered at the rate of 2 per second.
What are digits in the Running Digits subtest?
When calculating Full-Scale IQ, the record form's score summary sheet designates which subtests do NOT get included for the total score by using these punctuation symbols.
What are parentheses?
On WAIS-5, this determines the presence of statistically significant strengths and/or weaknesses.
What is the Index Score Discrepancy Analysis?
Two subtests that were primary subtests for the WAIS-IV but are now ancillary for the WAIS-5.
What are Information and Arithmetic?