Education-stratified base-rate information on discrepancy scores within and between the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Third Edition and the Wechsler Memory Scale - Third Edition

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 146-154

  Dori, Galit A ^a,b,c   Chelune, Gordon J ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Psychological and Behavioral Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RATING SCALE; RISK; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 3042561612     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.16.2.146     Document Type: Article

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