Overview Flashcards

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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?

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Neither test has contemporarily collected broad-based normative data.

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George Hynd was the first person to refer to neuropsychology as a specialty area in doctoral school psychology. True or False?

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True

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What stage in the history of clinical neuropsychology deemphasized localization of brain “lesions” and emphasized the identification of impaired and spared abilities?

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The functional profile stage

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What term is used to describe a condition in which many medications are administered to a child without the known potential interactive side effects?

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Polypharmacy

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In what decade did the interest in the school neuropsychology specialization first start?

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1980s

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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?

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Test of Memory and Learning (Reynolds & Bigler, 1994)

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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?

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KABC-II

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Which of the major tests of cognitive abilities assessment includes measurement of auditory processing (Ga)?

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Woodcock Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities

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According to Miller and Maricle (2019), which professional journal has the highest number of publications between 1991 and 2018?

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Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

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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?

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the single test approach stage

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