Crystallised intelligence
Drawing on knowledge, understanding language and reasoning with acquired concepts.
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Cognitive intelligence: understanding your IQ and your profile
IQ is a reference point. A cognitive profile explains how your strengths fit together and what they mean in your life.
Cognitive intelligence includes the abilities used to understand, learn, reason and process information. Psychometric assessment explores several dimensions to reveal strengths, unevenness and individual needs.
Five broad dimensions to explore
Visual-spatial intelligence
Analysing shapes and their relationships, organising space and transforming representations.
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Identifying relationships and reasoning through unfamiliar problems.
Explore this ability →Working memory
Keeping information available and working with it to understand, calculate or follow a task.
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Handling certain information quickly and accurately in simple, timed tasks.
Explore this ability →Which test is suitable at which age?
The WPPSI-IV is for young children aged 2 years 6 months to 7 years 7 months; the WISC-V for children and teenagers aged 6 years to 16 years 11 months; and the WAIS-IV for ages 16 to 79 years 11 months. Where age ranges overlap, the choice depends on circumstances and the assessment question. Testing takes place at the practice.
Understanding the distribution of scores
Scores are standardised against an age-matched reference group. IQ has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15: a score around 130 is approximately within the highest 2%. Available score ranges depend on the instrument; a statistical curve has no natural boundary at 40 or 160.
Recognising High Intellectual Potential
High Intellectual Potential refers to particularly strong cognitive intelligence, usually identified around an IQ of 130 or higher. Interpretation considers measurement precision, the profile and testing conditions. Stress can affect performance but does not by itself establish that a score would have exceeded that reference point. Discovering giftedness can illuminate your experiences and needs.
When certain abilities are very low
A very low result calls for understanding difficulties and useful support. Intellectual disability involves intellectual and adaptive difficulties that arise during development; IQ alone is insufficient. Assessment guides appropriate support, which can include learning strategies and help with independence.
Even or uneven profile: what does it mean?
Similar levels suggest a relatively even profile; marked differences invite exploration of strengths and specific needs. Unevenness does not rule out giftedness or automatically invalidate full-scale IQ. The significance and frequency of differences need interpretation. In the WAIS-IV, four main indices combine some of the five dimensions described here; WPPSI-IV structure depends on age.
An assessment that connects results with daily life
Testing at the practice takes up to two hours for adults and about an hour and a half for the WISC-V. Analysis, a written report and feedback then explain findings and their implications. You can ask questions and consider adjustments suited to your needs.
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Understand what makes your profile distinctive
An exceptional ability, uneven strengths or a feeling of being different can bring a wish to understand more. A carefully explained assessment helps you recognise your strengths, understand your history and find steps suited to your needs. You can tell me about your questions or begin with a screening questionnaire.
