What are the 5 main indices on the WISC
- Verbal Comprehension
- Visual Spatial
- Fluid Reasoning
- Working Memory
- Processing Speed
What are the 4 main indices on the WAIS
- Verbal Comprehension
- Perceptual Reasoning
- Working Memory
- Processing Speed
What are the subtests that make up the Verbal Comprehension Index on the WISC?
Which ancillary tests fall within this domain?
- Similarities
- Vocabulary
Ancillary
1. Information
2. Comprehension
What are the subtests that make up the Verbal Comprehension Index on the WAIS?
- Similarities
- Vocabulary
- Information
Ancillary
Conprehension?
What are the subtests that make up the Visual Spatial Index on the WISC?
- Only Block Design
- Visual Puzzles
No ancilliary
What are the subtests that make up the Fluid Reasoning Index on the WISC?
- Matrix Reasoning
- Figure Weights
Ancillary
1. Picture Concepts
2. Arithmetic
What are the subtests that make up the Working Memory Index on the WISC?
- Digit Span
- Picture Span
Ancillary
1. Letter number sequencing
What are the subtests that make up the Processing Speed Index on the WISC?
- Coding
- Symbol search
Ancillary
1. Cancellation
What are the 10 core subtests on the WISC?
- Similarities
- Vocabulary
- Block Design
- Visual Puzzles
- Matrix Reasoning
- Figure weights
- Digit span
- Picture span
- Coding
- Symbol search
Which subtests on the WISC are used to calculate the FSIQ?
- Similarities
- Vocabulary
- Block Design
- Matrix Reasoning
- Figure Weights
- Digit span
- Coding
What are the subtests that make up the Perceptual Reasoning Index on the WAIS?
- Block Design
- Matrix Reasoning
- Visual Puzzles
2 ancillary ones seem to exist, can come back to add
What are the subtests that make up the Working Memory Index on the WAIS?
- Digit Span
- Arithmetic
What are the subtests that make up the Processing Speed Index on the WAIS?
- Symbol search
- Coding
Describe the Verbal Comprehension Index of the WAIS 4
This index reflects an individual’s ability to understand, use and think with spoken language. It also demonstrates the breadth and depth of knowledge acquired from one’s environment. It measures the retrieval from long-term memory of such information.
Describe the Perceptual Reasoning Index of the WAIS 4
Ability to accurately interpret, organize and think with visual information.
Measures nonverbal reasoning skills and taps into thinking that is more fluid and requires visual perceptual abilities.
Describe the Working Memory Index of the WAIS 4
Reflects an individual’s ability to take in and hold information in immediate awareness and then perform a mental operation on that information.
It also measures the mental manipulation of number operations.
Describe the Processing Speed Index of the WAIS 4
Ability to process simple or routine visual information quickly and efficiently. It measures visual and motor speed.
What is the GAI and when would you use it?
General Ability Index, it’s more focused on reasoning ability and less weighted on processing speed and working memory
Describe the Verbal Comprehension Index on the WISC
- Ability to access and apply acquired word
knowledge - Ability to verbalize meaningful concepts, think about
verbal information, and express onesself in words
Age range for WISC
Age range for WAIS
WISC = 6-16 years 11 m
WAIS 16 year to 90
Describe the Fluid Reasoning Index on the WISC
- Ability to detect the underlying conceptual
relationship among visual objects and use reasoning to identify and apply rules. - Identification and
application of conceptual relationships in the FRI requires inductive and quantitative reasoning, broad
visual intelligence, simultaneous processing, and abstract thinking
Describe the Visual Spatial Index on the WISC
- Ability to evaluate visual details and understand
visual spatial relationships (toconstruct designs from a model)
Requires
Visual spatial reasoning,
Integration and synthesis of part-whole relationships,
Attention to visual detail
Visual-motor integration
Describe the Working Memory Index on the WISC
Ability to register, maintain, and manipulate
visual and auditory information in conscious awareness, which requires attention and concentration, as
well as visual and auditory discrimination.
Describe the Processing Speed index on the WISC
Speed and accuracy of visual identification,
decision making, and decision implementation. Performance on the PSI is related to visual scanning,
visual discrimination, short-term visual memory, visuomotor coordination, and concentration
