| Level | File |
| Ref No | BPS/005/5/03 |
| Title | The Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale (WBIS) |
| Date | 1946 |
| Extent | 2-Boxes |
| Description | The Wechsler Bellevue Intelligence Scale (WBIS) Test Material by David Wechsler.
Materials included are:
Form II Manual for Administering and Scoring the Test (1946)
Picture Arrangement Cards
Arithmetic Problems 8-9-10 Picture Completion and Block Design Cards
Object Assembly Figures, Horse, Face, Car
Blocks
Publisher: The Psychological Corporation
The WBIS is a general test of intelligence, the WBIS consists of 11 subtests divided into two parts, verbal and performance.
The battery of tests consists of six Verbal and five non-Verbal or Performance tests as follows: an information test, a general comprehension test, a memory span test (digits forward and backward), an arithmetical reasoning test, a similarities test, a vocabulary test, a block design test, an object assembly test and a digit symbol test. |
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| Language | English |
| RelatedRecord | PHO/001/01/557 |
| AccessConditions | Restricted Access |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 17: BPS History of Psychology Centre, Leicester |
| Term | Intelligence tests |
| Intelligence |
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| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following: ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description MAD3 Third Edition 2000 |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Mike Maskill BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |