The social-cognitive approach integrates the
a. Behavioral and cognitive approach
b. Environmental and cognitive approach
c. Humanistic and cognitive approach
d. Medical and cognitive approach
The eligibility process will be improved with
a. Decreased reliability and decreased bias.
b. Decreased reliability and increased bias.
c. Increased reliability and decreased bias.
d. Increased reliability and increased bias.
The psycho-educational model can be conceptualized as a combination of the:
a. Biogenic and environmental models
b. Biogenic and humanistic models
c. Psychodynamic and environmental models
d. Psychodynamic and humanistic models
Students with EBD tend to be particularly deficient in:
a. Linguistics.
b. Orthographics.
c. Pragmatics.
d. Phonological awareness.
______________________ has been found to have the best effects on children’s
behavioral development.
a. Authoritarian discipline.
b. Authoritative discipline.
c. Behavioral discipline.
d. Positive discipline.
Depression:
a. Decreases in prevalence with age.
b. Increases in prevalence with age.
c. Remains constant in prevalence across ages.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, youth violence is
a. Decreasing
b. Increasing
c. Remaining constant
Special education evaluation must include input from:
a. The parent (s) or guardian or the student.
b. The referring adult.
c. The student in question.
d. All of the above.
e. Only A and B.
A screening tool designed to identify students who are likely to develop bullying
behaviors must have especially strong _________ __________ if it is to work as a
screening measure.
a. Concurrent validity.
b. Construct validity.
c. Content validity.
d. Predictive validity.
An inability to attend to school because of fear of interacting with peers is an example
of:
a. A compulsion.
b. A phobia.
c. An obsession.
One limitation of the biological approach is that:
a. Environmental flaws are often difficult to cure and correct
b. Epidemiological flaws are often difficult to cure and correct
c. Physiological flaws are often difficult to cure and correct
d. Psychological flaws are often difficult to cure and correct
The series of focused steps used to determine eligibility for special education, is
referred to as:
a. Criterion gating.
b. Criterion validity.
c. Multiple gating.
d. Multiple validity.
Temperament includes:
a. Activity level.
b. Approach or withdrawal.
c. Cognitive functioning.
d. All of the above.
e. Only A and B.
Characteristics associated with anxiety and withdrawal are usually:
a. More transitory and amenable to treatment than those associated with conduct
disorder.
b. More transitory and amenable to treatment than those associated with ADHD.
c. Less transitory and amenable to treatment than those associated with conduct
disorder.
d. Less transitory and amenable to treatment than those associated with ADHD.
Cerebral trauma is synonymous with:
a. Craniocerebral trauma.
b. Traumatic brain injury.
c. Traumatic head injury.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
Intervention in families of stealers is often difficult because parents:
a. Are stealers themselves.
b. Do not observe stealing in the house.
c. Do not want to recognize that their child steals.
d. All of the above.
e. Only B and C.
Antisocial behaviors that have been typified as “masculine” (Robins, 1986) include:
a. Running away, fighting, and stealing.
b. Vandalism, fighting, and stealing.
c. Vandalism, fighting, and running away.
d. Vandalism, running away, and stealing.
Index crimes are:
a. Illegal only for minors.
b. Illegal only for adults.
c. Illegal regardless of person’s age.
d. None of the above.
Social skills training programs have proven:
a. Largely ineffective.
b. Moderately effective.
c. Very effective.
d. Only A and B.
e. None of the above.
Aggressive youth are more likely to attribute __________________ to their peers’
behavior.
a. Desire for conformity.
b. Hostile intentions.
c. Shyness.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
Covert antisocial behavior includes:
a. Physical aggression, manipulation of others, and running away.
b. Untrustworthiness, manipulation of others, and running away.
c. Untrustworthiness, physical aggression, and running away.
d. Untrustworthiness, manipulation of others, and physical aggression.
Emotional and behavioral disorders are usually described according to which two
dimensions:
a. Behavioral and Physiological
b. Biological and Environmental
c. Externalizing and Internalizing
d. Persistent and Transitory
Status offenses are:
a. Illegal only for minors.
b. Illegal only for adults.
c. Illegal regardless of person’s age.
d. None of the above.
In managing ADHD, one must have:
a. Objective measures of behavior.
b. Subjective measures of behavior.
c. Both A and B.
d. Neither A and B.
Antipsychotic drugs have proven especially effective children and youth with
schizophrenia.
Special education continues to grapple with
a. Which students should be served
b. Where instruction should be offered
c. How instruction should be approached
d. All of the above
e. Special education has resolved the issue of who should be served, where they should
be taught, and how instruction should be approached
The peak ages for delinquency are between the ages of:
a. 11-13
b. 13-15
c. 15-17
d. 17-19
TBI stands for:
a. Traumatic Brain Injury.
b. Treatable Brain Injury.
c. Traumatic Broad-spectrum Injury.
d. Treatable Broad-spectrum Injury.
The federal definition of emotional disturbance includes schizophrenia.
When students display depressed affects, they tend to:
a. Act unusually sad, lonely, and apathetic.
b. Avoid demanding tasks and social experiences.
c. Express comments that indicate low self-esteem, excessive guilt, and pessimism.
d. All of the above.
e. Only A and C