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Preface 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.
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PsychologyWechsler Adult Intelligence ScaleWechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of IntelligenceDevelopmental psychologyIntelligence quotientInterpretation (philosophy)Neuropsychological assessmentNeuropsychologyWechsler Intelligence Scale for ChildrenClinical psychologyCognitionPsychiatry
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Alan S. Kaufman
(1990).
Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence.
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