Week 3: WISC 2 Flashcards
How to calculate examinee’s age?
- if day of testing is smaller than day of birth, take 30 from the month of testing and add it to the day of testing
- minus one off of the month of testing
- then minus month of birth from month of testing, and day of birth from day of testing
What is a composite score?
The standardised version of index scores
What does discrepancy comparisons look at?
Significant differences between the different indices
FSIQ M and SD
100, 15
Index scores M and SD
100, 15
Subtest scaled scores M and SD
10, 3
List what significant index differences could indicate
- interest patterns
- cognitive style
- deficiencies or strengths in processing information
- deficiencies or strengths in the ability to work under time pressure
- sensory deficiencies
- brain injury
- psychopathology
- behavioural problems
- home or school environment differences to wider culture
What factors could influence a child’s performance on a subtest (MCCPEE)
- motivation
- concentration
- cooperation
- performance on the day
- examiner errors
- examiner/client relationship
What could a weakness in processing indicate?
Further investigation into visual discrimination, visual motor coordination, visual scanning or tracking
What is the GAI?
General ability index, composed of the VCI and the PRI.
When is the GAI useful?
When coorporation of WMI and PSI likely to underestimate cognition function based on neurodevelopmental/neuropsychologcial deficits
