Was the WAIS–IV UK co-normed with the WMS–IV UK, as it has been with previous editions?
Like their predecessors, the WAIS–IV UK and the forthcoming Wechsler Memory Scale–Fourth Edition (WMS–IV UK; Wechsler, in press) research projects overlapped during the standardisation stages to allow co-norming. The linkage provides a more complete picture of cognitive functioning in the areas of intellectual ability and memory, and enables a direct comparison of intelligence and memory through normative information. The linkage additionally enables prediction of memory scores on the basis of intellectual ability scores and interpretation of memory scores in the context of intellectual ability scores. Information regarding the co-normative sample, correlations between measures, and analyses relevant to concurrent use of the two scales (e.g., ability-memory discrepancy comparisons and ability-memory contrast scores) will be reported in the WMS–IV UK Technical and Interpretive Manual.
