Putting the PC in IQ: Images in the weschler adult intelligence scale - Third edition (WAIS III)

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 532-554

  Van Ommen, Clifford ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ideology; Images; Intelligence; Intelligence quotient (IQ); Positionings; Rhetoric; Validity; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale third edition (WAIS III)

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344441842     PISSN: 00812463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/008124630503500309     Document Type: Review

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