Cognitive deficits in patients with unilateral war-related frontal lobe lesions
✍ Scribed by F. William Black
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 565 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Psychologists estimated "true IQs" or "effective intelligence" from WISC profiles that varied for ethnicity (black, Mexican-American, or white), social class (lower or middle), profile (three scatter patterns), and direction of Verbal-Performance Scale discrepancy. Psychologists gave higher I& estimates to black and Mexican-American children's profiles than to the same profiles of white children. Social class was not a significant factor. Profiles with much scatter received higher IQs than profiles with limited scatter. The pattern of subtest scores also affected estimates, while the direction of the Verbal-Performance discrepancy was not significant. Finally, the WISC was judged to be more valid for white than for black and Mexican-American children. Explanations of the findings were discussed.