The child s VIQ may be affected by motivation, interests, cultural opportunities, natural endowment, attention span, and ability to process verbal information. This includes the ability to think in visual images and to manipulate these images with fluency and relative speed. The PIQ provides information about visual processing, planning, and organizational ability, attention, and non verbal learning and memory. Included are questions concerning names of objects, dates, historical and geographical facts, etc. In general, the Information subtest samples the knowledge that average children with average opportunities should be able to acquire through normal school and home experiences.
Information can provide clues about the child s ability to store and retrieve old data.
This subtest contains 19 pairs of words. The child must explain the similarity between the two items in each pair. All children begin with the 1 st item. Similarities help measure verbal concept formation the ability to place objects and events together in a meaningful group or groups Performance on the Similarities subtest may provide insight into the child s thinking process. The Arithmetic subtest contains 24 problems.