The Subscale of the WAIS That Most Substantially Assesses Short-Term

question 208

Multiple Choice

The subscale of the WAIS that most substantially assesses short-term memory is

• A)arithmetic.
• B)similarities.
• C)digit span.
• D)vocabulary.

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