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Q: Assessment results must be confidential except when those results are also used for instructional planning.

Q: Students with EBD typically fall in the normal range of intelligence.

Q: All known or suspected disabilities must be assessed accurately and fairly.

Q: IQ refers specifically to some generalized innate intelligence.

Q: Eligibility decisions for special education are made by special educators.

Q: Emotional intelligence and behavioral adaptation are the two characteristics most closely linked to the way in which students respond to the demands of school.

Q: Students with EBD are often placed in programs for students with learning disabilities.

Q: School could be a significant causal factor in the development of EBD.

Q: Referral rates are low for young children.

Q: Besides family, school is the most important socializing influence on children.

Q: Parents vary markedly in their tolerance of EBD.

Q: 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.

Q: Eligibility for special education can be determined through a brief screening procedure.

Q: In negative reinforcement traps, each person in the trap tends to reciprocate the other's aversive behaviors via: a. Aggression. b. Coercion. c. Reinforcement. d. All of the above. e. Only A and B.

Q: Screening is a brief procedure that samples a few behaviors across skills or a domain.

Q: 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.

Q: Multiple gating can be used to determine eligibility for special education.

Q: In families of antisocial children, interactions are characterized by: a. Negative and hostile behaviors. b. Negative and gratifying behaviors. c. Positive and hostile behaviors. d. Positive and gratifying behaviors.

Q: Students with disabilities are entitled to certain rights that do not apply to students without disabilities.

Q: Researchers have found a relationship between _____________ and decreased alcohol and tobacco use among middle school students. a. Authoritarian discipline. b. Authoritative discipline. c. Behavioral discipline d. Positive discipline.

Q: The extent to which an assessment leads to selection of effective interventions is quantified as outcome validity.

Q: ______________________ 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.

Q: Accurate screening instruments require predictive validity.

Q: Parental discipline that is both demanding and responsive is referred to as: a. Authoritarian discipline. b. Authoritative discipline. c. Behavioral discipline d. Positive discipline.

Q: Predictive validity quantifies the degree to which a test predicts future performance.

Q: Effective parental discipline involves: a. Laxness and demandingness. b. Laxness and strictness. c. Responsiveness and demandingness. d. Responsiveness and strictness.

Q: Concurrent validity is the degree to which a test measures the same content as another instrument.

Q: Parents of two- to four-year-old children frequently make the following discipline mistakes: a. Laxness, overreactivity, and verbosity. b. Laxness, overreactivity, and strictness. c. Laxness, strictness, and verbosity. d. Strictness, overreactivity, and verbosity.

Q: Construct reliability is the degree to which a test measures a specific concept or idea.

Q: Reciprocity of influence is important in understanding: a. Broken families. b. Child abuse. c. Parent-child interactions. d. All of the above. e. None of the above.

Q: Validity is the degree to which a test measures what it is intended to measure.

Q: Research has shown that being raised by a lesbian mother: a. Can contribute to a child being gay. b. Can contribute to a child being lesbian. c. Has no causal link to a child's later sexual orientation. d. A and B.

Q: Professional judgment should be eliminated from eligibility decisions.

Q: The risk for negative behavioral and emotional outcomes in foster children tends to: a. Decrease with the number of different placements. b. Increase with the number of different placements. c. Remain constant regardless of number of placements.

Q: A confidence interval is the probability that re-administration of the test will result in a score falling within the SEM.

Q: The major risk factors associated with single-parent homes are: a. Economic hardship, interpersonal conflict, and lack of parental supervision. b. Economic hardship, interpersonal conflict, and loss of attachment. c. Economic hardship, loss of attachment, and lack of parental supervision. d. Loss of attachment, interpersonal conflict, and lack of parental supervision.

Q: Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized behavior, and lack of affect are symptoms of: a. Autism b. Asperger syndrome c. Rett's disorder d. Schizophrenia

Q: The overall finding regarding children and divorce is that: a. Children adjust to divorce and go on with their lives. b. Children never recover from the effects of divorce. c. Most children develop some form of EBD related to the divorce. d. Young children develop some form of EBD related to the divorce.

Q: Hallucinations of children and adolescents frequently have: a. Historical or familial content. b. Historical or religious content. c. Sexual or familial content. d. Sexual or religious content.

Q: Families are best defined and understood in terms of: a. Function b. Size c. Structure d. All of the above e. Only A and B

Q: Most children with schizophrenia: a. Lose their symptoms before adulthood. b. Lose their symptoms before adolescence. c. Lose their symptoms after adulthood. d. Never lose their symptoms completely.

Q: In understanding resilience and vulnerability, key ingredients seem to be: a. Pattern, duration, and intensity of exposure to stressful circumstances. b. Pattern, duration, and intensity of exposure to environmental toxins. c. Pattern, sequence, and intensity of exposure to stressful circumstances. d. Pattern, sequence, and intensity of exposure to environmental toxins.

Q: Experts believe that schizophrenia is: a. A single disease. b. A cluster of similar disorders. c. Not a single disease. d. All of the above. e. Only B and C.

Q: Children with high levels of anxiety often have families in which: a. Caution and avoidance are reinforced. b. Caution and confrontation are reinforced. c. Risk-taking and avoidance are reinforced. d. Risk-taking and confrontation are reinforced.

Q: Primary prevention of schizophrenia involves: a. Assessing genetic risks. b. Avoiding substance abuse. c. Avoiding stress. d. All of the above. e. Only A and B.

Q: Resilience is best understood as how an individual: a. Copes with degrees of risk variables. b. Copes with patterns of exposure to risk variables. c. Copes with risk variables. d. All of the above. e. Only A and B.

Q: Schizophrenia is nearly always treated with drugs such as: a. Clomadin b. Ritalin c. Haldol d. All of the above e. Only A and B

Q: Resilience seems to be heightened by: a. Easy temperament and maternal warmth. b. Easy temperament and paternal warmth. c. Withdrawn temperament and maternal warmth. d. Withdrawn temperament and paternal warmth.

Q: A current trend in language intervention is an emphasis on: a. Articulation b. Pragmatics c. Prosody d. Semantics

Q: When several risk factors co-occur, their effects are: a. Additivive b. Exponential c. Multiplicative d. Separate

Q: Stereotypy seems to serve the primary purpose of providing: a. Release of anxiety. b. Sensory feedback. c. Social interaction. d. All of the above. e. Only A and B.

Q: Parental discipline is crucial, but not a perfect predictor of child behavior.

Q: Self stimulation is considered normal or pathological depending on: a. Intensity. b. Social context. c. Rate. d. All of the above. e. Only A and B.

Q: Undesirable parenting can be a reaction to a deviant child.

Q: Individuals with self-injurious behaviors seldom have well developed: a. Cognitive processing. b. Gross motor skills. c. Oral language. d. All of the above. e. Only A and B.

Q: Reciprocity of influence refers to the way in which children influence parent behaviors.

Q: Schizophrenia in children is generally believed to be the result of childhood trauma.

Q: Family form has a very strong effect on emotional development.

Q: The federal definition of emotional disturbance includes schizophrenia.

Q: Being raised by a lesbian mother has been shown to cause maladjustment.

Q: Self-injurious behavior may be the result of biochemical deficiencies.

Q: Children in substitute care are at high risk for developing EBD.

Q: Self-injurious behavior occurs only in individuals with multiple disabilities.

Q: Children in single parent households are at greater risk for EBD than children in two-parent households.

Q: Self-stimulation may or may not require intervention.

Q: Children whose parents are divorced have lower scholastic aptitude, perform less well in school, and have less confidence in their academic abilities than do children from intact families.

Q: Antipsychotic drugs have proven especially effective children and youth with schizophrenia.

Q: Birth order is an important predictor of EBD.

Q: Primary prevention of schizophrenia consists mainly of psychopharmacological treatment.

Q: Family is best defined by structure.

Q: The onset of schizophrenia is often insidious.

Q: Recent research has focused on the general processes that form the basis of child psychopathology.

Q: Schizophrenia cannot be diagnosed in children.

Q: The impact of environmental conditions on a child depends on the degree of risk they experience from other factors.

Q: In the federal definition, autism is subsumed under EBD.

Q: In an intact family, parental discord may exert a more pernicious influence than parental separation.

Q: A less severe form of depression not characterized by a major depressive episode is referred to as: a. Dysphoria b. Dysthymia c. Enuresis d. Mania

Q: Separation between parent(s) and child does not always impair a child's development.

Q: Depression: a. Decreases in prevalence with age. b. Increases in prevalence with age. c. Remains constant in prevalence across ages.

Q: Family characteristics are the best predictors of EBD.