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Cultural Aspects of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale in Relation to British Mental Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. P. S. Robertson  and
K. J. Batcheldor
K. J. Batcheldor
Affiliation:
Research Department, Netherne Hospital, Coulsdon, Surrey
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The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is now rapidly replacing the Wechsler-Bellevue as the major battery used by British clinical psychologists to test intelligence or intellectual deterioration. The following investigation was conducted to ascertain divergences in British mental patients from the American order of difficulty of items in the Information, Vocabulary and Picture Completion Tests, where both obvious and subtle cultural factors are present. The equivalence of certain possible substitute items was also explored.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 102 , Issue 428 , July 1956 , pp. 612 - 618
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1956 

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