Ammons Quick Test Validity among Randomly Selected Referrals

Zagar, Robert John; Kovach, Joseph W.; Busch, Kenneth G.; Zablocki, Michael D.; Osnowitz, William; Neuhengen, Jonas; Liu, Yutong; Zagar, Agata Karolina

doi:10.2466/03.04.pr0.113x29z0

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“…Three self-report administered paper-and-pencil measures of cognitive functioning were employed: (a) Symbol Digit Modality Test (SDMT; Smith, 1973), a timed measure of cognitive processing speed; (b) Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices (Raven, 1938), a measure of nonverbal reasoning; and (c) Quick Test (Ammons & Ammons, 1962; see also Zagar et al, 2013), a brief measure of receptive vocabulary that provides an index of verbal intelligence. Collectively, these measures assessed cognitive domains of processing speed, nonverbal reasoning, and verbal ability.…”

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Assessment and Modification of General Criminal Attitudes Among Men Who Have Sexually Offended

Olver

Stockdale

Simourd³

2020

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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General criminal attitudes have been well established as a dynamic risk factor for the origin, maintenance, and continuation of criminal behavior. Guided by the risk–need–responsivity (RNR) framework, this study examined self-reported change on a measure of general criminal attitudes in a sample of incarcerated men who participated in a sexual offense treatment program. Participants were administered the original version of the Criminal Sentiments Scale (CSS) and other measures at pretreatment and posttreatment and followed up in the community an average 14 years post-release. The results demonstrated that CSS total and subscale scores predicted general and violent recidivism, showed convergence with actuarial measures of criminogenic need, and had clinically meaningful associations with responsivity considerations. Pre–post changes on the CSS were associated with decreased general and violent recidivism controlling for pretreatment score and baseline risk. Implications for forensic assessment and correctional intervention are discussed.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment and Modification of General Criminal Attitudes Among Men Who Have Sexually Offended

Olver

Stockdale

Simourd³

2020

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…The normative sample was stratified across socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds and has been successfully used with ethnically diverse samples (Vance, Hankins, & Brown, 1988). Quick Test scores correlate highly with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) full scale and verbal ( r = .79 to .86) IQs (Dizzone & Davis, 1973) and have shown good reliability and validity (Joesting & Joesting, 1972; Zagar et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Higher Levels of Intelligence and Executive Functioning Protect Maltreated Children Against Adult Arrests: A Prospective Study

Nikulina

Widom

2018

Child Maltreat

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Research shows that maltreated children are at elevated risk for arrest as adults and that higher verbal intelligence, reading ability, and executive functioning (abstract reasoning and cognitive flexibility) may be protective against criminal behavior. The current study examines this hypothesis using data from court substantiated cases of child abuse and neglect and demographically matched controls followed prospectively into middle adulthood (N = 1,196). At age 29, verbal intelligence was assessed with the Quick Test and reading ability with the WRAT-R. At age 41, abstract reasoning was assessed with the Matrix Reasoning test and cognitive flexibility with the Trail Making Test-B. Arrest records were gathered from law enforcement agencies through mean age 51. Data were analyzed with binomial logistic regressions. The results indicated that maltreated children were at increased risk for arrest for nonviolent and violent crime. Higher verbal intelligence, reading ability, nonverbal reasoning, and cognitive flexibility were protective against arrest for violent crime. The protective effects of neuropsychological functions were more pronounced for violent than nonviolent crime, for the control than maltreated children, and differed by gender and race. These results suggest that interventions targeting improved cognitive and neuropsychological functions may serve an important role in reducing risk for crime.

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“…The test consists of 50 questions in which users are asked to attribute a given word with one of four given pictures. The Ammons Quick Test has been shown to provide a good approximation of the full-scale IQ as measured by the Wechsler intelligent scale for adults (WAIS) with Pearson’s product moments of 0.85 (Zagar et al, 2013 ) and 0.89 (Husband and DeCato, 1982 ). The Ammons Quick Test has been used in several psychiatric studies (Advokat et al, 2005 ; Marjoram et al, 2005 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Correlates of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Brain–Computer Interface Accuracy in a Multi-Class Personalization Framework

Weyand

Chau

2015

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) provide individuals with a means of interacting with a computer using only neural activity. To date, the majority of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) BCIs have used prescribed tasks to achieve binary control. The goals of this study were to evaluate the possibility of using a personalized approach to establish control of a two-, three-, four-, and five-class NIRS–BCI, and to explore how various user characteristics correlate to accuracy. Ten able-bodied participants were recruited for five data collection sessions. Participants performed six mental tasks and a personalized approach was used to select each individual’s best discriminating subset of tasks. The average offline cross-validation accuracies achieved were 78, 61, 47, and 37% for the two-, three-, four-, and five-class problems, respectively. Most notably, all participants exceeded an accuracy of 70% for the two-class problem, and two participants exceeded an accuracy of 70% for the three-class problem. Additionally, accuracy was found to be strongly positively correlated (Pearson’s) with perceived ease of session (ρ = 0.653), ease of concentration (ρ = 0.634), and enjoyment (ρ = 0.550), but strongly negatively correlated with verbal IQ (ρ = −0.749).

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Ammons Quick Test Validity among Randomly Selected Referrals

Cited by 18 publications

References 53 publications

Assessment and Modification of General Criminal Attitudes Among Men Who Have Sexually Offended

Assessment and Modification of General Criminal Attitudes Among Men Who Have Sexually Offended

Higher Levels of Intelligence and Executive Functioning Protect Maltreated Children Against Adult Arrests: A Prospective Study

Correlates of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Brain–Computer Interface Accuracy in a Multi-Class Personalization Framework

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