Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, 3rd Edition

PART I: Introduction to the Assessment of Adolescent and Adult Intelligence.

CHAPTER 1: IQ Tests: Their History, Use, Validity, and Intelligent Interpretation.

CHAPTER 2: Heritability and Malleability of IQ and Attacks on the IQ Construct.

CHAPTER 3: From the Wechsler-Bellevue I to the WAIS-III.

PART II: Individual Differences on Age, Socioeconomic Status, and Other Key Variables.

CHAPTER 4: Individual Differences for Adolescents and Adults on Gender, Ethnicity, Urban–Rural Residence, and Socioeconomic Status.

CHAPTER 5: Age and Intelligence across the Adult Life Span.

PART III: Integration and Application of WAIS-III Research.

CHAPTER 6: Research on Administration, Scoring, and Relationships between Wechsler Scales.

CHAPTER 7: Factor Analysis of the WAIS-III.

CHAPTER 8: Verbal–Performance IQ Discrepancies: A Neuropsychological Approach.

CHAPTER 9: Verbal–Performance IQ Discrepancies:  A Clinical Approach.

PART IV: Interpretation of the WAIS-III Profile: IQs, Factor Indexes, and Subtest Scaled Scores.

CHAPTER 10: Profile Interpretation: What the Subtests Measure.

CHAPTER 11: WAIS-III Profile Interpretation: Steps 1–7.

CHAPTER 12: WAIS-III Profile Interpretation: Steps 8 and 9.

PART V: Additional Measures of Adolescent and Adult IQ.

CHAPTER 13: Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT).

CHAPTER 14: Woodcock-Johnson Battery—Third Edition (WJ III) 561

CHAPTER 15: Brief Tests of Intelligence and Related Abilities 629

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.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.