Includes bibliographical references (p. 718-775) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction to the assessment of adolescent and adult intelligence. IQ tests : their history, use, validity, and intelligent interpretation -- Heritability and malleability of IQ and attacks on the IQ construct -- From Wechsler-Bellevue I to the WAIS-III -- Individual differences on age, socioeconomic status, and other key variables. Individual differences for adolescents and adults on gender, ethnicity, urban rural residence, and socioeconomic status -- Age and intelligence across the adult life span -- Integration and application of WAIS-III research. Research on administration, scoring, and relationships between Wechsler scales -- Factor analysis of the WAIS-III -- Verbal performance IQ discrepancies : a neuropsychological approach -- Verbal performance IQ discrepancies : a clinical approach -- Interpretation of the WAIS-III profile : IQ's, factor indexes, and subtest scaled scores -- WAIS-III profile interpretation : steps 1 [to] 7 -- WAIS-III profile interpretation : steps 8 and 9 -- Additional measures of adolescent and adult IQ. Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT) -- Woodcock-Johnson battery : third edition (WJ III) -- Brief tests of intelligence and related abilities -- Appendix A: Alternative approach to interpreting the WAIS-III : applying the theory based Flanagan-Kaufman interpretive method for the WISC-IV -- Appendix B: WAIS-III interpretive worksheet -- Appendix C: Norm tables for computing standard scores on the General Ability Index (GAI) and the clinical clusters -- Appendix D: Watkins and Canivez's critique of the Kaufman-Lichtenberger Interpretive System and articulation of a new theory based approach to profile interpretation.
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