Wechsler Fluid and Visual Spatial Reasoning Flashcards

A Visual Puzzles item shows a completed shape and six pieces; you must choose the three that combine to form it. What must be true of the correct pieces?

Answer: They fit together without overlap to recreate the whole

Correct Visual Puzzles pieces assemble exactly into the target without gaps or overlaps.

In a number-series fluid reasoning item, the sequence is 2, 6, 18, 54. What comes next?

Answer: 162

Each term is multiplied by three, so 54 times 3 equals 162.

During Block Design, a child correctly forms the pattern but exceeds the time limit. How is this typically scored?

Answer: No time-bonus points, and possibly no credit if over the limit

Block Design awards bonus points for speed, so exceeding limits reduces or eliminates credit.

A Matrix Reasoning item adds one dot to a figure in each successive panel. If panel three has three dots, how many should the answer panel (panel four) have?

Answer: Four

Adding one dot per panel means panel four has four dots.

Which cognitive skill is LEAST directly involved in the Visual Spatial index?

Answer: Verbal expression of ideas

Verbal expression belongs to verbal indexes, not the nonverbal Visual Spatial domain.

In Figure Weights, a triangle balances two diamonds, and a diamond balances two dots. How many dots balance one triangle?

Answer: Four

One triangle equals two diamonds, and each diamond equals two dots, giving four dots.

Why does the WISC-V separate Visual Spatial and Fluid Reasoning into distinct indexes?

Answer: They measure different, distinguishable cognitive abilities

Research showed spatial construction and abstract reasoning are separable abilities worth separate indexes.