WAIS factor patterns of epileptic and normal adults
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology
- Vol. 2 (2), 115-123
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638008403786
Abstract
The pattern and level of WAIS performance for 118 epileptic adults (65 men and 53 women) were compared to those of the standardization sample. As expected, epileptic subjects performed more poorly on all 11 subtests (from .61 to 1.17 SD below the norm group). Contrary to expectation, epileptic subjects were neither more variable nor were the inter-correlations of the subtests lower than those of the norm group. Overall, strong similarities in the patterns of performance on the tests were found for the two groups. As in previous research, factor analysis revealed the presence of a verbal comprehension factor, a perceptual organization dimension, and, in the instance of the three-factor solutions, an additional freedom-from-distractibility dimension for both groups.Keywords
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