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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"WAIS-IV"”.
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The Neuropsychological Application of the WAIS-IV over the WAIS-III
The current study examined the WAIS-IV and how the changes to the test may impact the measure's usefulness in neuropsychological evaluations. It was hypothesized that the WAIS-IV would be a significantly better predictor of performance on the neuropsychological measures of the Category Test, Finger …
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Modified Administration of the WAIS-IV for Visually Impaired Examiners: A Validity Study
… fewer blind and visually impaired individuals pursue graduate education with the most commonly pursued graduate degree being psychology (American Federation for the Blind, 2010). A core area of graduate training [defined by the American Psychological Association (APA)] is declarative …
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Exploring the Item Difficulty and Other Psychometric Properties of the Core Perceptual, Verbal, and Working Memory Subtests of the WAIS-IV Using Item Response Theory
… Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV; Wechsler, 2008) only function as intended if subtest items proceed in order of difficulty. While many aspects of the WAIS-IV have been researched, there is no literature about subtest item difficulty and precise item difficulty values are …
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Intelligence Testing For Persons With Visual Impairments: Haptic Matrices Intelligence Assessment
… internal consistency reliability and convergent-divergent validity of a three dimensional haptic matrix completion task as a measure of non-verbal intelligence for persons with low or no vision. Sixty-six UND undergraduates completed the prototype Haptic Matrices Intelligence Assessment (HMIA) and …
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The Five-Factor Model As Predictor Of Performance On Decision-Making Tasks
… a psychometrically sound measure of the five-factor model of personality. Five measures of decision-making were used which addressed various aspects of adequate decision-making. The current research also included a measure of cognitive ability (WAIS-IV Vocabulary) as previous research has …
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A comparison of language, demographics, and word reading as an estimate of premorbid functioning
… is essential for determining areas of neurocognitive decline following an acquired injury or onset of a neurodegenerative condition, and it plays a key role in differential diagnosis, forensic practice, intervention design, and prognoses regarding functional impairments (Almkvist & Tallberg, 2009; …
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Hedonia and Eudaimonia: Associations with Academic Success, Wellbeing, and Neuropsychological Functioning
… and academic success and wellbeing in a diverse, urban college sample by viewing happiness through the lens of hedonia (seeking pleasure and relaxation) and eudaimonia (seeking meaning), and their neuropsychological correlates. Undergraduate students (n=76; 68.4% female; mean age …
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Establishing Neurocognitive Profiles of Major Depressive Disorder Subtypes
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) subtypes have been shown to differentially impact psychiatric symptom presentation, clinical features, and functional abilities. While there is extensive research regarding MDD subtypes and clinical characteristics, there has been limited information regarding the …
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Executive functions in early adulthood: data for the controlled animal fluency test
Assessment tools that accurately assess executive functions in early adulthood are important for clinical practice, particularly given factors that can affect the executive functions, such as brain injury and mental illness, are relatively common during this developmental period. The aim of the …
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MMPI-2-RF : clinical utility with a traumatic brain injury population
… brain injury (TBI) sequelae can cause cognitive deficits that affect test-taking abilities and item endorsement during differential diagnoses of neurological and personality factors. Therefore, this study examined the clinical utility of the shortened 338-item MMPI-2-RF inventory with a …
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder with Comorbid Anxiety/Depression in Adults: Impacts on Neuropsychological Functioning
… is high in the adult population (over 44% of individuals carry a second diagnosis, 25% anxiety, 18.6% in depression). Separately, these disorders can impact scores on neuropsychological assessments. Little research has investigated how comorbidity among ADHD and other disorders impacts test …
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Head-Impact-Related Outcomes by Position in Retired NFL Football Players
… Participants (N=142) were selected from an archival database gathered through the NFL Concussion Settlement belonging to the Neuropsychology Assessment Center of Nova Southeastern University. One-Sample T-Tests indicated that the combined sample and the Skilled players group demonstrated …
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Development and Validation of a New Naming Task: The Southwestern Item Fluency Test (SWIFT)
… psychometrically sound naming task that is sensitive to WFD. One-hundred items were selected from the Bank of Standardized Stimuli (BOSS) (Brodeur et al., 2014), an open-source collection of high-definition photographs, to create the Southwestern Item Fluency Test (SWIFT). All items were normed on …
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An Analysis and Comparison of WMS-III and WMS-IV Verbal Paired Associates: Practical Implications for Neuropsychologists
… (VPA3) would be similar in agreement to the WMS-IV (VPA4) and that VPA4 would show a stronger relationship than VPA3 with intellectual abilities, sustained attention, and executive function abilities as assessed by the WAIS-IV; CPT-2; and the TMT, Category Test, and Stroop, respectively. …