Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The current version of the test, the WAIS-IV, which was released in 2008, is composed of 10 core subtests and five supplemental subtests, with the 10 core subtests yielding scaled scores that sum to derive the Full Scale IQ. With the WAIS-IV, the verbal/performance IQ scores from previous versions were removed and replaced by the index scores.
An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. [1] Originally, IQ was a score obtained by dividing a person's mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person's chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months.
The categories of IQ vary between IQ test publishers as the category labels for IQ score ranges are specific to each brand of test. The test publishers do not have a uniform practice of labeling IQ score ranges, nor do they have a consistent practice of dividing up IQ score ranges into categories of the same size or with the same boundary ...
The test was created in 1939 by Eldon F. Wonderlic. It consists of 50 multiple choice questions to be answered in 12 minutes. [1] [2] [3] The score is calculated as the number of correct answers given in the allotted time, and a score of 20 is intended to indicate average intelligence. [2]
The test had become a scale, and the subtests were arranged from easiest to most difficult. The test also showed in detail the four to eight tasks that children should be able to perform at 11 different ages, ranging from 3 to 13. [3] [5] The test was constructed by giving the subtests to children of a specific (chronological) age group. If 75% ...
Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. [3] [4] [5] It is a non-profit organisation open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. [6]
Developed for use with English-speaking patients aged 16 to 89 years, [1] WTAR is a “hold” test, a type of neuropsychological test that relies on abilities thought to be unaffected by cognitive decline associated with neurological damage.
For Verbal Items, the child answers questions that address a broad range of general knowledge topics. Matrix Reasoning - the child looks at an incomplete matrix and selects the missing portion from 4 or 5 response options. Bug Search - the child uses an ink dauber to mark the image of a bug in the search group that matches the target bug.