Research Catalog

Title

Assessing adolescent and adult intelligence / Alan S. Kaufman, Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger.

Author

Kaufman, Alan S., 1944-

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lichtenberger, Elizabeth O.

Description

xx, 796 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"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. The newly updated Third Edition provides important enhancements and additions that highlight the latest research and interpretive methods for the WAIS-III." "Augmenting the traditional "sequential" and "simultaneous" WAIS-III interpretive methods, the authors present a new approach derived from Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory. This approach combines normative assessment (performance relative to age peers) with ipsative assessment (performance relative to the person's own mean level). Following Flanagan and Kaufman's work to develop a similar CHC approach for the WISC-IV, Kaufman and Lichtenberger have applied this system to the WAIS-III profile of scores along with integrating recent WAIS-III literature." "Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence remains the premier resource for the field, covering not only the WAIS-III but also the WJ-III, the KAIT, and several brief measures of intelligence, as well as laying out a relevant, up-to-date discussion of the discipline. The new, theory-based interpretive approach for the WAIS-III makes this a vital resource for practicing psychologists, as well as a comprehensive text for graduate students."--Jacket.

Subject

• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
• Intelligence tests
• Teenagers > Intelligence testing
• Wechsler Scales
• Intelligence Tests
• Age Factors
• Adolescent

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 718-775) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I: Introduction to the assessment of adolescent and adult intelligence. 1: IQ tests: their history, use, validity, and intelligent interpretation -- 2: Heritability and malleability of IQ and attacks on the IQ construct -- 3: From the Wechsler-Bellevue I to the WAIS-III -- II: Individual Differences on Age, Socioeconomic Status, and Other Key Variables. 4: Individual differences for adolescents and adults on gender, ethnicity, urban-rural residence, and socioeconomic status -- 5: Age and intelligence across the adult life span. III: Integration and Application of WAIS-III Research. 6: Research on administration, scoring, and relationships between Wechsler scales -- 7: Factor analysis of the WAIS-III -- 8: Verbal-performance IQ discrepancies: A Neuropsychological approach -- 9: Verbal-performance IQ discrepancies: A Clinical approach -- IV: Interpretation of the WAIS-III Profile: IQs, factor indexes, and subtest scaled scores -- 10: Profile interpretation: what the subtests measure -- 11: WAIS-III profile interpretation: Steps 1-7 -- 12: WAIS-III profile interpretation: Steps 8 and 9 -- V: Additional measures of adolescent and adult IQ -- 13: Kaufman adolescent and adult intelligence test (KAIT -- 14: Woodcock-Johnson Battery-Third Edition (WJ III) -- 15: Brief tests of intelligence and related abilities -- A: Alternative approach to interpreting the WAIS-III: Applying the theory-based Flanagan-Kaufman interpretive method for the WISC-IV -- B: WAIS-III Interpretive Worksheet -- C: Norm tables for computing standard scores on the general ability index (GAI) and the clinical clusters -- D: Watkins and Canivez's critique of the Kaufman-Lichtenberger interpretive system and articulation of a new theory-based approach to profile interpretation.

ISBN

• 0471735531
• 9780471735533

LCCN

^^2005280856

OCLC

• 61361672
• SCSB-12634998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library