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bclement10 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

What is an advantage of using a fixed test battery over a flexible selection of appropriate tests?

a) Fixed batteries provide neuropsychologists with norms that can be used to compare the performance of their client with a group of similar people
b) Fixed batteries allow neuropsychologists to interpret the results based on their experience, which gives a better insight into the client's feelings
c) Fixed batteries are not affected by the social, cultural and medical histories of the client
d) Fixed batteries cannot result in inaccurate conclusions about the nature of the cognitive deficit

Question 2

While the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS-III) is able to distinguish between neurologically normal individuals and those with brain damage resulting in memory impairment, critics say the WMS-III does not do a good job of

a) distinguishing among a variety of diseases
b) distinguishing cognitive impairments from behavioural impairments
c) determining the degree of severity of the impairment
d) distinguishing right hemisphere lesions from left hemisphere lesions