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Noun1.adult intelligence - the average IQ of the adults in a given populationadult intelligence - the average IQ of the adults in a given population
I.Q., intelligence quotient, IQ - a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age (multiplied by 100)
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The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is an intelligence test that was first published in 1955 and designed to measure intelligence in adults and older adolescents.
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They evaluated cognitive function using a series of tests: the Delayed Word Recall Test (DWRT) to evaluate verbal learning and short-term memory, the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) to evaluate executive function and processing speed, and both the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised and the Word Fluency Test (WFT) to evaluate executive function and expressive language.
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The authors examined the relations of fluid and crystallized intelligence and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IQ to three separable executive functions--inhibiting prepotent responses (inhibiting), shifting mental sets (shifting), and updating working memory (updating)--in young adults.
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The PACC is a composite of the Digit Symbol Substitution Test score from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised, the Mini Mental State Exam, the Total Recall score from the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test, and the Delayed Recall score on the Logical Memory Ha sub-test from the Wechsler Memory Scale.
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For example, Matsuoka et al in a normal elderly population (n = 50) compared a Japanese version of the NART (the JART) with the revised Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS; Wechsler, 1997), finding that the JART explained 61% of variance in IQ scores.
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale revised and case history interview were administered to determine cognitive deficits following traumatic frontal lobe injury.
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), [14] Cattell's Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CCFT) and Trail Making Test (TMT) [15] were used to test neurocognitive functions.
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Horn, "Age changes on tests of fluid and crystallized ability for women and men on the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT) at ages 17-94 years," Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, vol.
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A neuropsychological test (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised) was done five months after discharge from the hospital, to determine any neurocognitive deficits or impairment.
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