NCMHCE UPDATED 2026 EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - IV
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- 2008
- AGES: 16+
- intelligence is a global ability made up of a number of interrelated functions
- Four Index Scores:
1. Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI)
2. Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI)
3. Working Memory Index (WMI)
4. Processing Speed Index (PSI)
- 10 Core Subtests:
1. VCI: Similarities (abstract reasoning)
2. VCI: Vocabulary (semantic knowledge)
3. VCI: Information (general knowledge)
4. PRI: Block Design (spatial processing)
5. PRI: Matrix Reasoning (inductive reasoning)
6. PRI: Visual Puzzles (spatial reasoning)
7: WMI: Digit Span (working memory)
8: WMI: Arithmetic (quantitative reasoning)
9. PSI: Symbol Search (processing speed)
10. PSI: Coding (associative memory)
- 2 Broad Scores
> Full Scale IQ = based on combined scores for the 10 subtests
> General ability index (GAI) = based on only the 6 VCI and PSI subtests
- SUBTESTS: Mean score = 10; SD = 3
- FSIQ: Mean score = 100; SD = 15
- 4 additional supplemental subtests
✔✔WISC-V and WPPSI-IV
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- WISC-V = 6 yrs to 17 yrs
- WPPSI-IV = 2.5 yrs to 7.25 yrs
✔✔Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (KTEA-3)
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- Measures academic ability in children grades 1-12
- 3 Core Score Areas:
1. Reading
2. Math
3. Written Language
- verbal instructions can be minimized to make them fair for all cultures
✔✔Cognitive Assessment System (CAS2)
,(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- Based on the PASS (planning, attention, simultaneous
processing, & sequential processing)
- AGES: 5-18
- All cultures and ethnicities
✔✔Slosson Tests
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- designed to be fast ways of estimating intelligence in
order to identify children at risk of educational failure
✔✔Assessing Intellectual Disability
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔1. Vineland Bx Scales = measure communication, daily
living skills, and socializing to develop special education programs
2. AAIDD Adaptive Bx Scales = assess personal self-sufficiency, community self-
sufficiency, personal-social responsibility, social adjustment and personal adjustment for
AGES 4-21
3. Denver II = screens for developmental delays by observing a child's performance in
personal-social, fine motor adaptive, language, and gross motor domains
> if a child fails an item that 90% of younger children pass, that child is scored as
having a developmental delay
4. Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID-III) = assess development of children
AGES 1-42 months on mental, motor, and bx rating scales
5. Fagan Test of Intelligence = gauge information processing speed of an infant in order
to predict childhood IQ
✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) - ✔✔All disabled individuals under age 25
need to be evaluated with an individualized educational plan in order to provide
education in the least restrictive environment
✔✔Culture-Fair Tests
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- no research to suggest these are better at predicting
academic achievement or job performance
- Leiter International Performance Scale (Leiter-3) = culture-fair assessment of cognitive
abilities for AGES 2-21. No required verbal instructions. Measures visualization,
reasoning, memory, and attention
- Raven's Progressive Matrices = nonverbal measure of general intelligence, avoiding
specific education or cultural learning
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Assessments for People with Disabilities
,(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- declares any test administered to a disabled job
applicant should only reflect the person's ability on the test and must have reasonable
accommodations
- Colombia Mental Maturity Scale (CMMS) = test general reasoning ability that does not
require fine motor skills or verbal responses. Useful for those with cerebral palsy,
intellectual disability, speech impediments, and brain damage
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-4) = measures receptive vocabulary w/o
requiring verbal responses
- Haptic Intelligence Scale (HIS) = uses tactile stimuli. Good for assessing blind and
partially-sighted people
- Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude (H-NTLA) = 12 nonverbal subtest
administered verbally or in pantomime; good for assessing children w/hearing deficits
✔✔Group Intelligence Tests
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔1. Kuhlman-Anderson Test (KA) = grades K-12;
measures verbal and quantitative intelligence; relies less on language
2. Woodcock Johnson IV = test of cognitive abilities and a test of achievement
3. Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT-R) = 12min paper and pencil test to measure mental
ability of adults; might discriminate against some cultural groups in certain jobs
✔✔MMPI-2
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2
- Validity scales grouped into three measurements:
1. Inconsistent/Non-response: CNS ("cannot say"), VRIN (variable response
inconsistency), TRIN (true response inconsistency)
2. Exaggerated Response: faking bad
3. Downplayed Response: faking good, defensiveness/denial
- Mean: 50; SD: 10
- Scores 65+ = clinically significant
✔✔Projective Personality tests
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- unstructured and ambiguous leading to less faking
due to open-ended nature
- Rorschach Inkblot Test
> location (where the subject sees what they described) > determinants (why they saw)
>form quality (resemblance of the response) > content >frequency of occurrence
- TAT
, ✔✔Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS)
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- personality theory of Murray
- 225 items in an either-or choice
- prevents responses that are socially desirable
✔✔16 personality factor questionnaire (16PF)
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔factor analysis-based exam that identifies 16 primary
personality traits and 5 secondary traits
✔✔NEO-Personality Inventory (NEO-3)
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔Attempts to gauge an individual's level of Big Five
personality traits (OCEAN), which are then further broken down
✔✔Neuropsychological Assessments
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- Benton-Visual Retention Test (BVRT) = assesses
visual memory, spatial perception, and visual-motor skills to diagnose brain damage.
Reproduce from memory the geometric patterns on a series of 10 cards
- Beery Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (Beery-VMI-6) = assess visual-
motor skills in children by reproducing geometric shapes
- WCST = shift cognitive strategies
- Stroop Color-Word Association Test = cognitive flexibility and suppress a habitual
reaction
- Mini Mental Status Exam = measures cog function of older adults to orientation,
registration, attention & calculation, recall, language, and visual construction
- Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery = differentiate between normal and brain
damaged people (>0.60=brain pathology)
- Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery = 11 subtests assessing rhythm, visual
functioning, and writing (0 = normal; 2 = brain damage)
- Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test = brief test; respond to 16 stimulus card containing
geometric figures and they must copy or recall them
✔✔Acetylcholine
(Physiology) - ✔✔- NT found in PNS and CNS released into neuromuscular junctions to
contract muscles
- responsible for:
> REM Sleep >circadian rhythm >memory
- degeneration results in Alzheimer's
- Receptors: nicotinic (excitatory) & muscarinic (inhibitory)
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - IV
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- 2008
- AGES: 16+
- intelligence is a global ability made up of a number of interrelated functions
- Four Index Scores:
1. Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI)
2. Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI)
3. Working Memory Index (WMI)
4. Processing Speed Index (PSI)
- 10 Core Subtests:
1. VCI: Similarities (abstract reasoning)
2. VCI: Vocabulary (semantic knowledge)
3. VCI: Information (general knowledge)
4. PRI: Block Design (spatial processing)
5. PRI: Matrix Reasoning (inductive reasoning)
6. PRI: Visual Puzzles (spatial reasoning)
7: WMI: Digit Span (working memory)
8: WMI: Arithmetic (quantitative reasoning)
9. PSI: Symbol Search (processing speed)
10. PSI: Coding (associative memory)
- 2 Broad Scores
> Full Scale IQ = based on combined scores for the 10 subtests
> General ability index (GAI) = based on only the 6 VCI and PSI subtests
- SUBTESTS: Mean score = 10; SD = 3
- FSIQ: Mean score = 100; SD = 15
- 4 additional supplemental subtests
✔✔WISC-V and WPPSI-IV
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- WISC-V = 6 yrs to 17 yrs
- WPPSI-IV = 2.5 yrs to 7.25 yrs
✔✔Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (KTEA-3)
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- Measures academic ability in children grades 1-12
- 3 Core Score Areas:
1. Reading
2. Math
3. Written Language
- verbal instructions can be minimized to make them fair for all cultures
✔✔Cognitive Assessment System (CAS2)
,(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- Based on the PASS (planning, attention, simultaneous
processing, & sequential processing)
- AGES: 5-18
- All cultures and ethnicities
✔✔Slosson Tests
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- designed to be fast ways of estimating intelligence in
order to identify children at risk of educational failure
✔✔Assessing Intellectual Disability
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔1. Vineland Bx Scales = measure communication, daily
living skills, and socializing to develop special education programs
2. AAIDD Adaptive Bx Scales = assess personal self-sufficiency, community self-
sufficiency, personal-social responsibility, social adjustment and personal adjustment for
AGES 4-21
3. Denver II = screens for developmental delays by observing a child's performance in
personal-social, fine motor adaptive, language, and gross motor domains
> if a child fails an item that 90% of younger children pass, that child is scored as
having a developmental delay
4. Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID-III) = assess development of children
AGES 1-42 months on mental, motor, and bx rating scales
5. Fagan Test of Intelligence = gauge information processing speed of an infant in order
to predict childhood IQ
✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) - ✔✔All disabled individuals under age 25
need to be evaluated with an individualized educational plan in order to provide
education in the least restrictive environment
✔✔Culture-Fair Tests
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- no research to suggest these are better at predicting
academic achievement or job performance
- Leiter International Performance Scale (Leiter-3) = culture-fair assessment of cognitive
abilities for AGES 2-21. No required verbal instructions. Measures visualization,
reasoning, memory, and attention
- Raven's Progressive Matrices = nonverbal measure of general intelligence, avoiding
specific education or cultural learning
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Assessments for People with Disabilities
,(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- declares any test administered to a disabled job
applicant should only reflect the person's ability on the test and must have reasonable
accommodations
- Colombia Mental Maturity Scale (CMMS) = test general reasoning ability that does not
require fine motor skills or verbal responses. Useful for those with cerebral palsy,
intellectual disability, speech impediments, and brain damage
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-4) = measures receptive vocabulary w/o
requiring verbal responses
- Haptic Intelligence Scale (HIS) = uses tactile stimuli. Good for assessing blind and
partially-sighted people
- Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude (H-NTLA) = 12 nonverbal subtest
administered verbally or in pantomime; good for assessing children w/hearing deficits
✔✔Group Intelligence Tests
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔1. Kuhlman-Anderson Test (KA) = grades K-12;
measures verbal and quantitative intelligence; relies less on language
2. Woodcock Johnson IV = test of cognitive abilities and a test of achievement
3. Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT-R) = 12min paper and pencil test to measure mental
ability of adults; might discriminate against some cultural groups in certain jobs
✔✔MMPI-2
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2
- Validity scales grouped into three measurements:
1. Inconsistent/Non-response: CNS ("cannot say"), VRIN (variable response
inconsistency), TRIN (true response inconsistency)
2. Exaggerated Response: faking bad
3. Downplayed Response: faking good, defensiveness/denial
- Mean: 50; SD: 10
- Scores 65+ = clinically significant
✔✔Projective Personality tests
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- unstructured and ambiguous leading to less faking
due to open-ended nature
- Rorschach Inkblot Test
> location (where the subject sees what they described) > determinants (why they saw)
>form quality (resemblance of the response) > content >frequency of occurrence
- TAT
, ✔✔Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS)
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- personality theory of Murray
- 225 items in an either-or choice
- prevents responses that are socially desirable
✔✔16 personality factor questionnaire (16PF)
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔factor analysis-based exam that identifies 16 primary
personality traits and 5 secondary traits
✔✔NEO-Personality Inventory (NEO-3)
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔Attempts to gauge an individual's level of Big Five
personality traits (OCEAN), which are then further broken down
✔✔Neuropsychological Assessments
(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔- Benton-Visual Retention Test (BVRT) = assesses
visual memory, spatial perception, and visual-motor skills to diagnose brain damage.
Reproduce from memory the geometric patterns on a series of 10 cards
- Beery Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (Beery-VMI-6) = assess visual-
motor skills in children by reproducing geometric shapes
- WCST = shift cognitive strategies
- Stroop Color-Word Association Test = cognitive flexibility and suppress a habitual
reaction
- Mini Mental Status Exam = measures cog function of older adults to orientation,
registration, attention & calculation, recall, language, and visual construction
- Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery = differentiate between normal and brain
damaged people (>0.60=brain pathology)
- Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery = 11 subtests assessing rhythm, visual
functioning, and writing (0 = normal; 2 = brain damage)
- Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test = brief test; respond to 16 stimulus card containing
geometric figures and they must copy or recall them
✔✔Acetylcholine
(Physiology) - ✔✔- NT found in PNS and CNS released into neuromuscular junctions to
contract muscles
- responsible for:
> REM Sleep >circadian rhythm >memory
- degeneration results in Alzheimer's
- Receptors: nicotinic (excitatory) & muscarinic (inhibitory)
