Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

recieves two 30 minute OT sessions per week Scott's received the Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children in order to measure his level of intellectual functionning. His overall cognitive ability falls in the average range (FSIQ= 103;58th %tile;111).His nonverbal ability is significantly better developed than his verbal ability. -Nonverbal he measured in the 77th %tile -Verbal he measured in the 37th %tile Visual Motoe Integration Scale Scott shows a great improvement since he was first…

Introduction Intelligence has been a controversial topic for many years. What is intelligence? Who has it? How do you measure it? Is there more than one type of intelligence? There are many theories that explain “intelligence”. Some theories of intelligence are Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, Sternberg’s theory of triarchic intelligence, and Cattell’s theory of intelligence, and many others have been proposed throughout the years. Many views have been brought up and many names are…

of Non-Verbal Intelligence, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales 3rd Edition, Gilliam autism Rating Scale-3rd, and classroom observation which are done by the psychologist. When all of the assessments are completed the Multidisciplinary Evaluation Team, which includes parents, regular education teacher, special education…

The article ‘Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota study of Twins Reared Apart’ includes the studies of Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal and Tellegen which reveals psychological differences between monozygotic twins who were nourished separately and together. This study is derived from the Minnesota study which has conducted research over monozygotic and dizygotic twins from around the world since 1979 (Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal, Tellegen, 1990). The monozygotic twins are…

history of disease. The research assessors, who were completely blind to the drug exposure of the children, evaluated cognitive outcomes through the use of Mental Developmental Index of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (for children between 21 and 34 months of age) and the Differential Ability Scales (for children between 33-45 months of age). After, standardized scores were calculated. The research assessors used the…

Matthew’s cognitive abilities were assessed using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales, 4th Edition (WAIS-IV), in addition to supplemental subtests from the Woodcock-Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities, 4th Edition (WJ-IV Cog). The areas of cognitive processing ability measured include crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, long-term memory, visual-spatial processing, fluid reasoning ability, processing speed and auditory processing. On the WAIS-IV, subtests that measure different…

Setting Billy Dee was seen at the County Probation Department/Adult Services. Identifying Information Billy Dee is a 28-year-old Caucasian male. The reason for the referral Billy Dee was referred to the Country Probation Department to determine suitability for treatment and the development of a treatment plan to deal with identified problems discussed later on in this report. Behavioral Observations His speech was normal in terms of volume, rate and prosody. Throughout the assessment process,…

On the four subtests Danny’s full scale score was 55 which is in the extremely low range. The test like everyone does have a small degree of error the low-probability is 90 out of 100 that the true score is between 31 and 45. Danny score is ranked at 0.1 percentile which means that Danny scored as well or better than 0.1 of the examinees his age. The second test Danny was given was the Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS). The OWLS is an assessment of receptive and expressive (oral and…

psychologists reference certain factors such as intelligence and education as an example of the environment having a low impact (Brysbaert & Rastle, 2009). Brysbaert and Rastle describe a situation where there is low correlation between parents’ socioeconomic status and child intelligence, thus leading many psychologists to believe that the impact of the environment is…

Human intelligence is one of the most widely discussed topics within the discipline of psychology, nevertheless, psychologists have not come to an agreement on the definition of intelligence. While many agree that intelligence refers to one’s ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think logically and abstractly, the question of whether there is one general intelligence or many ‘intelligences’ still persists (Gottfredson, 1997). As Deary (2001) has noted, sometimes we refer to someone’s general…