Overview Flashcards
According to the author, what is the principal reason why the Halstead-Reitan tests for children and the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery: Children’s Revision are not suitable for current clinical use?
Neither test has contemporarily collected broad-based normative data.
George Hynd was the first person to refer to neuropsychology as a specialty area in doctoral school psychology. True or False?
True
What stage in the history of clinical neuropsychology deemphasized localization of brain “lesions” and emphasized the identification of impaired and spared abilities?
The functional profile stage
What term is used to describe a condition in which many medications are administered to a child without the known potential interactive side effects?
Polypharmacy
In what decade did the interest in the school neuropsychology specialization first start?
1980s
Luria’s conceptualization of “functional systems” within the brain has served as the theoretical foundation for several current tests including all of the following except one, which one?
Test of Memory and Learning (Reynolds & Bigler, 1994)
All of the following tests provide additional information on the processes required to complete tasks above and beyond test scores, except for one test, which one?
KABC-II
Which of the major tests of cognitive abilities assessment includes measurement of auditory processing (Ga)?
Woodcock Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities
According to Miller and Maricle (2019), which professional journal has the highest number of publications between 1991 and 2018?
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
Using the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt test to predict overall brain dysfunction would be an example of what stage in the history of clinical neuropsychology?
the single test approach stage
