Compare and contrast the Wechsler Scales of Intelligence with one other individual test of
intelligence.
What will be an ideal response?
In terms of graduate training, instructors are increasingly providing equal training time
for the Wechsler Scales and the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery
(WJ-R). Both the Wechsler Scales and WJ-R assess verbal and performance abilities;
however, the latter instrument is more heavily influenced by information processing
theory. For example, it contains specific scales that assess long-term memory
functioning, as well as verbal and auditory processing. Although both are used to
identify children with learning problems, the WJ-R may be a more sensitive assessment.
That is, while five children with learning problems may score the same on the Wechsler
Scales (e.g., all with similar, low IQ scores), they may show considerable variability in
functioning on different subscales of the WJ-R. These data may help better inform
educational interventions to meet the needs of individual children.
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Among those seeking professional help for psychological disorders, eligibility for treatment is most likely to be guided by the use of the diagnostic criteria and codes provided by
A) feild trials B) the biopsychosocial approach C) maladaptive behaviors D) the DSM-5.
All of the following statements about the acquisition of grammar are correct except
a. children's early two-word utterances communicate a range of meanings, such as agent + action ("Daddy eat") and action + object ("Eat cookie") b. the order of words in children's two-word utterances usually does not vary c. many children go through a stage in which the combination of words in two-word utterances seems to be random, resulting in a roughly equal number of phrases like "eat cookie" and "cookie eat" d. even before they are 2 years old, children are able to infer meaning from grammatical markers such as word order