Effects of education and cultural background on performance on WAIS-III,: WMS-III, WAIS-R and WMS-R measures: Systematic review

Australian Psychologist

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 216-223

  Walker, Alexandra J ^a,b   Batchelor, Jennifer ^a   Shores, Arthur ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bilingualism multilingualism; Cognitive disorders; Cross cultural psychology; Memory and cognition; Neuropsychology; Psychological testing and measurement individual difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952035859     PISSN: 00050067     EISSN: 17429544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00050060902833469     Document Type: Review

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