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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition (Hong Kong)
Author(s): David Wechsler
At a Glance:
- Administration: Paper-and-pencil
Completion Time: Core subtests: 60-90 minutes
- Scores:.............
Publication Date: 2014
- Ages: Adults 16–90
- Norms: Hong Kong
Product Summary
INTRODUCE TO WAIS-IV(HK)
In recognition of emerging demographic and clinical trends, the WAIS IV was developed to provide you with the most advanced measure of cognitive ability and results you can trust when addressing the changing clinical landscape.
Responding to influencing factors
Changing Demographics
- Updated normative data for ages 16-90 years
- Enhanced utility for older adults
Emerging Clinical Needs
- Additional tasks for improved clinical utility
- New clinical and validity studies
New Research in the Field
- New subtests and items
- Improved measures of Working Memory, Processing Speed, and Fluid Reasoning
Increase Caseload
- Reduced administration time to obtain composite scores
- Improved scoring rules
- Enhanced scoring software to assist in generating customizable reports
Features & Benefits
Five Revision Goals
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Clinical utility
- New special group studies. Click here for a listing of all special group studies.
- General Ability Index (GAI) included
Increased developmental appropriateness
- More efficient administration time
- Added teaching items to ensure understanding of task
- Reduced vocabulary-level for verbatim instructions
- Reduced emphasis on motor demands and timed performance
- Enlarged visual stimuli
Enhanced user friendliness
- Reduced testing time by an average of 15%
- Revised instructions for clarity and consistency
- Redesigned record form
- Increased portability
- Expanded sample responses
- Simplified technical manual organization
- Included new clinically sensitive supplemental subtests
Updated structural foundations
- Transitioned from dual IQ to Index Score structure
- Consistency with WPPSI-III and WISC-IV
- Fewer Subtests yield FSIQ and 4 Index Scores (VCI, PRI, WMI, & PSI)
- New measure of fluid intelligence
- Developed new subtest to measure fluid reasoning (Visual Puzzles)
- Enhanced measures of working memory
- Revise arithmetic to emphasize WM
- Revise digit span to emphasize WM (added Digit Sequencing)
- Retain auditory WM measures on WAIS, visuo-spatial WM Measures on WMS
- Improved measure of processing speed
- Reduce fine motor demands
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