Description
Book SynopsisThe classic text--now updated with a new interpretive approach to the WAIS?-III Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, the classic text from Alan Kaufman and Elizabeth Lichtenberger, has consistently provided the most comprehensive source of information on cognitive assessment of adults and adolescents.
Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition.
PART I: Introduction to the Assessment of Adolescent and Adult Intelligence.
CHAPTER 1: IQ Tests: Their History, Use, Validity, and Intelligent Interpretation.
CHAPTER 2: Heritability and Malleability of IQ and Attacks on the IQ Construct.
CHAPTER 3: From the Wechsler-Bellevue I to the WAIS-III.
PART II: Individual Differences on Age, Socioeconomic Status, and Other Key Variables.
CHAPTER 4: Individual Differences for Adolescents and Adults on Gender, Ethnicity, Urban–Rural Residence, and Socioeconomic Status.
CHAPTER 5: Age and Intelligence across the Adult Life Span.
PART III: Integration and Application of WAIS-III Research.
CHAPTER 6: Research on Administration, Scoring, and Relationships between Wechsler Scales.
CHAPTER 7: Factor Analysis of the WAIS-III.
CHAPTER 8: Verbal–Performance IQ Discrepancies: A Neuropsychological Approach.
CHAPTER 9: Verbal–Performance IQ Discrepancies: A Clinical Approach.
PART IV: Interpretation of the WAIS-III Profile: IQs, Factor Indexes, and Subtest Scaled Scores.
CHAPTER 10: Profile Interpretation: What the Subtests Measure.
CHAPTER 11: WAIS-III Profile Interpretation: Steps 1–7.
CHAPTER 12: WAIS-III Profile Interpretation: Steps 8 and 9.
PART V: Additional Measures of Adolescent and Adult IQ.
CHAPTER 13: Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT).
CHAPTER 14: Woodcock-Johnson Battery—Third Edition (WJ III) 561
CHAPTER 15: Brief Tests of Intelligence and Related Abilities 629
APPENDIX A: Alternative Approach to Interpreting the WAIS-III: Applying the Theory-Based Flanagan-Kaufman Interpretive Method for the WISC-IV.
APPENDIX B: WAIS-III Interpretive Worksheet.
APPENDIX C: Norm Tables for Computing Standard Scores on the General Ability Index (GAI) and the Clinical Clusters.
APPENDIX D: Watkins and Canivez’s Critique of the Kaufman-Lichtenberger Interpretive System and Articulation of a New Theory-Based Approach to Profile Interpretation.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
