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Practice Test 1 Flashcards

1
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Noam Chomsky

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Children with impoverished backgrounds are more likely to have behavioral and emotional difficulties

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In all cases of suicidal ideation…

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Parents will have to be notified early

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3
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Do you need parental permission to talk with a student about their cognitive assessment results?

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Yes

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4
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A test’s psychometrics in general should be above…

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0.70

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5
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School “readiness” is related to…

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A condition that exists when maturation is sufficiently developed to allow the rapid acquisition of basic academic skills

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6
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The halo effect

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When an initial positive judgment unconsciously colors the perception of the individual as a whole (can confound formal observations)

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7
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Erikson’s Stages of Development

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Birth-18 months: Trust v. Mistrust
2-3: Autonomy v. Shame and Doubt
3-5: Initiative v. Guilt
6-11: Industry v. Inferiority
12-18: Identity v. Role Confusion
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8
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Complaints regarding Section 504 should be directed to…

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The Office for Civil Rights

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9
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When parents demand to see a test protocol…

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Provide parents with qualitative information and your reasoning when interpreting results. A protocol may be used in your explanation, but not copied.

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10
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Autism is associated with…

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Abnormalities in brain structures and function

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11
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Which approaches are best for building intrinsic motivation?

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Cognitive approaches (e.g., choice selection)

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12
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Which therapy works best for selective mutism?

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Stimulus fading (i.e., gradual desensitization)

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13
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Albert Bandura

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Studied aggression in children and conducted experiments using a “Bobo” doll.

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14
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Heuristic

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A tool used in problem solving and is based on reducing the number of factors to consider

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15
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What is the prevalence rate for learning disabilities?

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4-8%

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16
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What is the gifted range for standard scores?

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125-135

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17
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Narrative recording

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Contains a running record and notes on a student

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18
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Student learning develops as target skills progress through which phases?

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Acquisition -> proficiency -> generalization -> adaptation

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19
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What key sources of information should be used in an effective threat assessment?

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Student of concern interview, parents, staff, and peers

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What should all effective threat assessment and risk management plans contain?

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Increased supervision at school and home

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21
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Dialectical behavior therapy attempt to build skills related to the following four primary areas:

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mindfulness, stress tolerance, interpersonal skills, and emotional regulation

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22
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What is the primary trait of PTSD?

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The urge to retell the personal perception and interpretation of the traumatic event

23
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A concussion is commonly referred to as…

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Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)

24
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Legal case most closely aligned to least restrictive environment

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Oberti v. Cementon

25
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Father of school psychology

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Lightner Witmer

26
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Perkins Act

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Gives rights to transition special education students into vocational programs

27
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Hobson v. Hansen

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Schools must provide equal educational opportunities despite a family’s SES

28
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Diana v. State Board of Education

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Assessments must be administered in the native language of the student to validate minority testing practices

29
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Larry P. v. Riles

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The percentage of minority students placed in special education classrooms cannot exceed the percentage in the representative population

30
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PASE v. Hannon

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Endorsed the use of standardized tests as long as the tests are not culturally biased and are used with several other measures

31
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PARC v. Commonwealth of PA

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Marks the genesis of FAPE; intellectually disabled children should have access to public education and due process rights should be honored and preserved

32
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Marshall v. Georgia

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The percentage of minorities placed in special education can exceed the percentage in the representative population as long as the appropriate and proper steps for placement were followed

33
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Honig v. Doe

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Special education students must have a manifestation hearing to review placement if they are suspended for more than 10 days

34
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Oberti v. Cementon

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Affirmed the rights of special needs students to be included in regular education classes and activities

35
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Rowley v. Hudson Board of Ed.

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Public schools do not have to provide the best education, but rather an adequate education; defined parameters for FAPE

36
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Tarasoff Case

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A school district has a duty to warn the parents if their child is in danger

37
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Lau v. Nichols

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Schools must provide accommodations for ESL students

38
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Tatro v. Irving Independent School District

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Schools must provide medical services that do not require a medical doctor to perform such medical services, even if the child needs full-time attention from a nurse

39
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Piaget’s Four Stages of Development

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Sensorimotor (0-2): Involves motor actions and senses
Preoperational (2-7): Symbolic function emerges
Concrete operational (7-11): Begin to think about more than just one dimension of a problem or situation
Formal operational (11+): Complex abstract thought emerges and hypothetical and deductive reasoning develops
40
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Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development

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Preconventional: Behavior is based on the desire to avoid punishment and gain rewards
Conventional: Behavior is designed to acquire the approval of others and maintain social relations
Postconventional: Judgements about right and wrong are logical and behavior is controlled by an internalized ethical code that is relatively independent of the approval or disapproval of others

41
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three levels of RTI data analysis

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variability, level, and trend

42
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What percentage of students have reported being bullied?

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20-30%

43
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Prevalence of ASD

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1 in 88 people

44
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Theory associated with perspective-taking difficulties

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Theory of Mind

45
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Best practices in pedagogy involve which broad concepts?

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Explicit & systematic

46
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How much time does a special education team have to complete a formal evaluation if signed permission to proceed has been provided?

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60 days

47
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Who is considered the first school psychologist?

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Arnold Gesell

48
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The right hemisphere of the brain is associated with…

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new learning and processing novel information

49
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The left hemisphere of the brain is associated with…

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memory for learned facts, logic, and details

50
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Cognitive processing model

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attention -> encoding -> storage -> decoding

51
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Epstein’s Model of Parental Involvement

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parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision making, collaborating with community

52
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MLM

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statistical model of parameters that vary at more than one level

53
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According to NASP, suicide in the school-aged population is the

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second leading cause of death

54
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Bullying is conceptualized as

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Violence characterized by a consistent abuse of power

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