Overview of School Psychology Flashcards
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?
Single test approach stage
According to the author, what’s the principal reason why the Halstead-Reitan test for kids and Luria-Nebraska Neuropsych Battery: Children’s Revision aren’t suitable for current clinical use?
Neither test has contemporarily collected broad-based normative data
T or F? George Hynd was the first person to refer to neuropsych as a specialty area in doctoral school psychology.
True
What stage in the history of clinical neuropsychology deemphasized localization of brain “lesions” and emphasized the identification of impaired and spared abilities?
A. Integrative and predictive stage
B. Functional profile stage
C. Single test approach stage
D. Test battery/lesion specification stage
Functional profile stage
What term is used to describe a condition in which many medications are administered without the known potential interactive side effects?
Polypharmacy
In what decade did the interest in school neuropsych specialization first start?
1980s
Luria’s conceptualization of “functional systems” within the brain has served as the theoretical foundation for all of the following, except:
Test of Memory and Learning (Reynolds & Bigler, 1994)
All of the following provide additional information on the processes required to complete tasks above and beyond test scores, except for:
KABC-II
Which of the major tests of cognitive abilities assessment includes measure of auditory processing (Ga)?
Woodcock Johnson IV Test of Cognitive Abilities
According to Miller and Maricle (2019), which professional journal has the highest number of publications between 1991-2018?
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
