The extent to which an assessment leads to selection of effective interventions is
quantified as outcome validity.
Aggressive talk is often a precursor of violent behavior.
Undesirable parenting can be a reaction to a deviant child.
Many children with ADHD do not have EBD.
Schizophrenia cannot be diagnosed in children.
In a behaviorally based intervention, the teacher attempts to resolve intrapsychic
conflict.
The difficulty of defining behavior disorders precludes useful definitions.
Compulsions are actually worries about persistent, intrusive impulses.
Using a psychoeducational approach, insight is thought to enable behavioral change.
Parents vary markedly in their tolerance of EBD.
In general, low IQ causes EBD.
Schizophrenia or schizoid behavior can be triggered by use of hallucinogenic drugs.
The identification of emotional or behavioral disorders is a human social process and as
such is influenced by subjectivity.
A confidence interval is the probability that re-administration of the test will result in a
score falling within the SEM.
The interrelationships among cultural influences are strong; however, untangling the
effects of these individual factors has been achieved.
Family characteristics are the best predictors of EBD.
In abnormal child psychology, comorbidity is the rule and not the exception.
Physical insult during an accident of birth may destroy brain tissue and contribute to
EBD.
Being raised by a lesbian mother has been shown to cause maladjustment.
All known or suspected disabilities must be assessed accurately and fairly.
In the federal definition, autism is subsumed under EBD.
Screening is a brief procedure that samples a few behaviors across skills or a domain.
Reciprocity of influence refers to the way in which children influence parent behaviors.
ADHD is a developmental disorder of attention and activity.
Students can be taught to define and measure their own behaviors.
“Wrap around services” generally include services beyond those offered at school.
Most students with emotional or behavioral disorders are formally identified as having
EBD before they enter school.
Success in special education should be determined by the degree to which EBD is
cured.
Children with early onset of CD typically have a better prognosis than do those with
later onset.
Evidence suggests that children with EBD learn pro-social behaviors from watching
television.
There is great overlap between ADHD and other diagnostic categories.
Professional judgment should be eliminated from eligibility decisions.
Children typically understand that OCD behavior is excessive and unreasonable.
As children grow older, they tend to exhibit:
a. less overt physical aggression.
b. less overt emotional aggression.
c. more overt physical aggression.
d. more overt emotional aggression.
The brain can be traumatized by:
a. High fever.
b. Infectious disease.
c. Toxic chemicals.
d. All of the above.
e. Only B and C.
Scores on achievement tests
a. Allow comparison of normative and non-normative groups.
b. Are not highly accurate measures of academic aptitude.
c. Are not precise measures of academic attainment.
d. All of the above.
e. Only B and C.
When children exhibit a depressed attributional style, they tend to believe that bad
outcomes are:
a. A result of someone else’s inadequacies.
b. A result of their own inadequacies.
c. A result of unalterable inadequacies.
d. All of the above.
e. Only B and C.
Children of ______________ may be more likely to set fires.
a. Smokers
b. Fire fighters
c. Parents with intellectual disabilities
d. All of the above.
e. Only A and B
ADHD seems to put adolescents at particularly high risk for:
a. Shyness.
b. Substance abuse problems.
c. Physical aggression
d. Vandalism
A major development in the treatment of children and youths with EBD in the 1960s
was
a. the development of a variety of conceptual approaches
b. legalization of corporal punishment
c. the civil rights movement
d. the incorporation of constructivist pedagogy into classroom instruction
The special educator must view behavior as:
a. Predictable and controllable.
b. Predictable and disordered.
c. Varied and controllable.
d. Varied and disordered.
It is estimated that _________ percent of adolescents have engaged in delinquent acts.
a. 20-30
b. 40-50
c. 60-70
d. 70-80
e. 80-90
Interventions that focus on changing the individual’s social system are best described
as:
a. Behavioral
b. Biological
c. Ecological
d. Humanistic
Tourette’s syndrome occurs more frequently in:
a. Adults
b. Children
c. Females
d. Males
______________ refers to the total number of individuals with X disorder in a given
population.
a. False positives
b. False negatives
c. Incidence
d. Prevalence
Projective tests measure:
a. Achievement in other domains
b. Conscious mental processes
c. Future achievement
d. Unconscious mental processes.
The biological approach is especially effective when attempting to intervene early and
prevent
a. Biting in young children
b. Bullying in young children
c. Noncompliance in young children
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
The primary focus of special educators should be on the factors that:
a. Can be altered within the classroom.
b. Cause biological predisposition.
c. Seem influenced by the family.
d. All of the above.
e. Only A and C.
Manifestation determination hearings address:
a. The relation of behavior to a student’s disability.
b. The relation of the behavior to the IEP.
c. The relation of the behavior to the student.
d. The relation of the IEP to a student’s disability.
In practice, multidisciplinary teams often make
a. Biased, predictable decisions.
b. Biased, unpredictable decisions.
c. Unbiased, predictable decisions.
d. Unbiased, unpredictable decisions.
The Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale contains which subscales:
a. Family involvement.
b. Interpersonal strengths.
c. Intrapersonal strengths.
d. All of the above.
e. Only B and C.
Regardless of ethnicity, early adolescent delinquents are characterized by:
a. Lax parental monitoring.
b. Physically abusive families.
c. Susceptibility to antisocial peer influence.
d. All of the above.
e. Only A and C.
In families of aggressive children, parents tend to respond to aversive behaviors with:
a. Aversive forms of control.
b. Hitting, shouting, and threatening.
c. Negative reinforcement.
d. All of the above.
e. Only A and B.
The relationship between television watching and antisocial behavior is:
a. A one-to-one correspondence.
b. Direct.
c. Not a one-to-one correspondence.
d. A and B.
e. None of the above.
Using Bandura’s notion of triadic reciprocality, disordered behaviors are
comprehensible:
a. Across contexts of occurrence
b. Across mindsets of occurrence
c. Only in the context in which they occur
d. Only in the mindset in which they occur
True positives are those students who
a. Do not have emotional or behavioral disorders but are identified
b. Do not have emotional or behavioral disorders and are not identified
c. Have emotional or behavioral disorders and are identified
d. Have emotional or behavioral disorders but are not identified
Most student with EBD are
a. Low in achievement.
b. Low in IQ.
c. Low in achievement and IQ.
d. Low in achievement but not IQ.
In using standardized intelligence and achievement tests, one must avoid
a. Failing to consider the margin of error.
b. Failing to consider the match between an achievement test and instructional
expectations.
c. Failing to use scores that predict important outcomes.
d. All of the above.
e. Only A and B.
Sam, a first grader, is openly and repeatedly noncompliant. His teacher should
a. Be concerned as noncompliance can indicate more serious disorders
b. Punish Sam’s noncompliance while increasing demands made upon him
c. Not be concerned as noncompliance is a normal stage of development
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above
In the 19th century, psychiatric disorders were attributed to
a. Masturbation
b. Overwork
c. Religious preoccupation
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Dysphoria that lasts for a protracted period of time but does not reach an intense level is
called:
a. Dysphoria
b. Dysthymia
c. Enuresis
d. Mania
Based on mean IQ score, students with EBD are likely to demonstrate:
a. A greater-than-normal frequency of academic failure and socialization.
b. A greater-than-normal frequency of grade-level failure and socialization.
c. A lower-than-normal frequency of academic failure and socialization.
d. A lower-than-normal frequency of grade-level failure and socialization.
Repetitive hand washing to avoid the contraction of AIDS is an example of:
a. A compulsion.
b. A phobia.
c. An obsession.
The Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance is:
a. Consistent with the federal definition of EBD.
b. Norm-referenced.
c. Standardized.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
Abusive parents tend to exhibit deficits in:
a. Empathy, role-taking, impulse control, and self-esteem.
b. Empathy, role-taking, impulse control, social isolation.
c. Empathy, role-taking, social isolation, and self-esteem.
d. Empathy, social isolation, impulse control, and self-esteem.
Disordered and delinquent behavior
a. Differ in degree
b. Differ in subjective ways
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
The population of students with EBD identified and served in the schools are most
likely cases of:
a. false positives
b. false negatives
c. true positives
d. true negatives
Some disorders of conduct such as hyperaggression create developmental risk.
Inability to think or concentrate can be a symptom of depression.
Incidence refers to the number of new cases of X disorder in a given population.
Depression is a bipolar disorder.
A great deal of research evidence has confirmed the value of response to intervention
(RTI) for teachers of students with EBD.
Low achievement is a significant risk factor for EBD.
Race is a scientifically defensible biological fact.
Parental discipline is crucial, but not a perfect predictor of child behavior.
In children dysphoria may be marked by irritability and unhappiness.
Depression tends to be of short duration.
Parasuicides are more common for males than females.
Schools tend to respond to students with emotional and behavioral disorders with early
identification and prevention.
Anorexia occurs with equal prevalence in males and females.
Chronic childhood depression has no relationship with adult maladjustment.
Primary prevention of ADHD is currently impossible.
The prevalence of identified emotional and behavioral disorders in the school-aged
population tends to be approximately equal to that of learning disabilities, or about 5%.