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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence."”.
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Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence: preliminary normative data for 12-15-year-old English- and Afrikaans-speaking Coloured learners in the Western Cape
The Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) is an internationally recognized brief measure of general intellectual functioning. The WASI was developed, standardized, and normed in United States on a predominantly White sample. Despite this fact, and the fact that there are no South …
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Investigating the relationship between intelligence and executive function through visual scanning strategies
Executive function (EF) refers to a set of cognitive processes responsible for higher-order thinking, behavioral regulation, and goal-directed behavior, while intelligence is considered a contributing factor to cognitive performance. Previous research has explored the relationship between these two …
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An anxious time? exploring the worries experienced by people with a mild to moderate intellectual disability at the stage of transition to adulthood.
… study examined the content and salience of worries experienced by young people with mild intellectual disabilities (ID) at transition to adulthood. Self-efficacy and anxiety in relation to worry was also examined. Fifty-two participants (17-20 years) took part; 26 with mild ID and 26 …
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Smoking Status, Cognition, and Neurobiology in Schizophrenia
… impairments are considered a core feature of schizophrenia. Nicotine has been suggested to have an effect on cognition in individuals with schizophrenia and in the general population. Since smoking status is seldom controlled for in cognitive research studies understanding the contribution …
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Individual differences in hemispheric lateralization of language processing
… between a lateralized bias in the processing of information and individual differences (e.g., biological sex, gender identity, ability, personality) are inconsistent. We compared two different measures of laterality: dichotic listening and lateralized semantic priming and their relation to …
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Executive functions in early adulthood: data for the controlled animal fluency test
… common during this developmental period. The aim of the current study was to investigate a more recently refined measure of executive function, the Controlled Animal Fluency Test (CAFT) in a non-clinical sample of young adults. Relationships between performance on the CAFT and other executive …
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The WASI as a Screening Tool for Counselors in the Referral Decision for a Neuropsychological Evaluation
… evaluation. This study examined the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) instrument's ability to screen for possible CD by examining the relationship between a) WASI Performance IQ (PIQ) and Verbal IQ (VIQ) scores and neuropsychological test scores, and b) the VIQ-PIQ …
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Validation of the ‘Victim Empathy Response Assessment (ii)’ (VERA-ii) with a Non-offending Adult Male Community Sample
Developing empathy has become a central component of cognitive behavioural treatment programmes for offenders, who it is argued have victim empathy deficits. It is therefore important to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions. Research is moving towards utilising victim empathy measures …
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Examining factors associated with faking-good responding on the Child Abuse Potential Inventory
… health issue which affects an estimated 19% of victims in the United States (Fang, Brown, Florence, & Mercy, 2013; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010), and therefore, it remains important to continue to engage in quality control of the assessment, prevention, and treatment …
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Improving the assessment of Intellectual Disability (ID) within the UK Prison Service (who define ID using an IQ below 80)
The main topic of this thesis is the assessment of Intellectual Disabilities (ID) within the UK prison service. ID is characterised by deficits in intellectual ability, such as reasoning, problem solving and understanding new or complex information (impaired intelligence), deficits in adaptive …