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The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is an individually administered test of intelligence, intended to measure general cognitive abilities in children between the ages of 6 and 16 years. The test must be administered by a trained professional and typically takes 60–90 min to complete. Performance on the WISC is measured by a standard score, or Full-Scale IQ (FSIQ), with a range of 40–160, a mean score of 100 (average), and a standard deviation of 15. The fourth edition of the WISC (WISC-IV) is currently the most widely used measure of intelligence (Flanagan & Kaufman, 2009).
Structure: Subtests and Indices
The WISC-IV consists of 10 core-battery subtests and five supplemental tests that are grouped into four indices thought to represent the major components of intelligence (Fig. 1). The four indices are the Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI), the Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI), the Working Memory Index...
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Poyau, S. (2013). WISC-IV. In: Volkmar, F.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_259
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