FTCE School Psychology PreK-12 Exam

What are student engagement strategies used for?

To keep students on track

What is a step in the Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS)?

Listing all students in the examined class

What is another name for operant learning?

Instrument learning

The process that determines whether or not an individual can further process information

Attention

Teachers who want to speed up the process of applied behavioral analysis should what?

Model behavior because it decreased the time it takes to shape behavior

A form of method of consulting designed for parents and teachers to work together to address a student's needs

CBC

states that parents have the right to be included in IEP decisions, offer input on child education placement, participate in their child's IEP evaluations and access their records

Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975

have a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10

T-Scores

Score reporting method in which the scores are grouped into groups of 10 and each represents 10% of the scores obtained

Deciles

a scale on which scores are listed from best to worst or vise versa

Ordinal

Generally above 70%

Cut off scores

What should you do when attempting to maintain positive behavior reinforcement?

Variable Ratio

What is the most common way to document data from a naturalistic observation?

Anecdotal records

Determines how well a student is learning

Instructional assessment

Looks at obtaining an external rewards or to accomplish a goal. A child who harasses other students for their money or possessions displays this.

Instrument aggression

A spread of scores around the mean

Standard deviations

A child in the birth to three program should have his files reviewed when?

6 months prior to turning 3

After hearing about a crisis at the school a parent should do what?

Attend to the needs of their child first

Who is considered the founder of school psychology?

Lightner Witmer

A systematic method of assessment for obtaining information about the purposes (functions) a problem behavior serves for a person. It is very detailed about the problem behavior.

Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)

Point of distribution where half of the scores are above and half of the scores are below.

Median

What are three associations that collaborate with psychological testing?

National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)

American Psychology Association (APA)

American Education Research Association (AERA)

A student should be provided what as a second step in implementing an effective intervention?

Assessment and feedback

by year 2013-2014 all schools must be proficient in teaching math and reading skills

No Child Left Behind Act

the theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished. Learning occurs in a social context (communal).

Social Learning Theory

How many levels in a FBA?

3

time that occurs between a stimulus and response

Latency Record

# of times that the problem behavior happens

Event Recording (also known as frequency recording)

whether the problem happens during specific times

Interval Recording

noting whether the problem behavior happens at the end of a specified time period.

Time sampling

amount of time the problem behavior occurred for.

Duration Recording

kids experience the concrete operational stage

Ages 7-11

# of responses per minute

Rate

responsible for behavioral function and autonomic control

Hypothalamus

Treats Bipolar Disorder - both the manic and depressive symptoms

Neuroleptic, Divalproex, Lithium, Carbamazepine, and Lamotrigine

Incoming information is first encoded where?

Short term memory

Block design evaluates the functioning of where?

Right hemisphere

serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine

Depression

a type of authentic assessment; samples of different work products gathered over time and across curriculum areas are evaluated

Portfolio Assessment

designed to explore a students activities outside of the class, their role in the family, with others, interest in hobbies and games.

ABA inventory

The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is a parent-report questionnaire on child behavioral and emotional problems. It is one of the most widely-used standardized measures for evaluating maladaptive behavioral and emotional problems in subjects between the ages of 2 and 18. It assesses internalizing behaviors (anxious, depressive, and over controlled) and externalizing behaviors (aggressive, hyperactive, noncompliant and under controlled). (15 min)

Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)

The history/transition information profile is useful for who?

Teachers with a new class who have students that have a past school record.

Does not include following step by step instructions, only organization skills, self-directed instructions, and figuring out priorities.

Executive functioning skills

being able to hear, identify, and manipulate individual speech sounds or phonemes

Phonemic awareness

the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent sounds

Phonics

assesses receptive vocabulary and intelligence with speech and language deficits. They can point to words.

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT)

A norm-referenced social skills rating scale for teachers; 5 point- Likert Scale. ; 43 items; from never occurs to frequency occurs;

-The instrument consists of three subscales (Teacher-Preferred Social Behavior, Peer-Preferred Social Behavior, and School Adjustment Behavior) intended to be used for "screening and identification of social skills deficits"

Walker-McConnell

Which one is more important? IQ or adaptive?

both are equally important but not equivalent to one another

1. Trust vs. mistrust (Birth to 12-18 months)

2. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (12-18 months to 3 years)

3. Initiative vs. Guilt (3 years to 5-6 years

4. Industry vs. Inferiority (5-6 years to adolescence)

5. Identity vs. role diffusion (Adolescence)

6. Intimacy vs. Isolation (Early adulthood)

7. Generativity vs. Stagnation (Middle adulthood)

8. Ego-Integrity vs. Despair (Late adulthood)

Erikson's Stages of Development

1. Oral Stage

2. Anal Stage

3. Phallic Stage

4. Latency Stage

5. Genital Stage

Freud's Psychosexual Stages

1. preconventional (rules are absolute & fixed)

2. conventional (follow rules to avoid punishment)

3. postconventional (individual principles)

Kohlberg's stages of moral development

1. sensorimotor (movement & sensation - object permeance)

2. preoperational (concrete thinking, symbolically, egocentric)

3. concrete operational (logical, reasons)

4. formal operational (abstract thinking, deductive, hypothetical thinking)

Piaget's stages of cognitive development

A sociocultural cognitive theory that emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development. Developed MKO and ZPD.

Vygotsky's Theory

Vygotsky's concept of the difference between what a child can do alone and what that child can do with the help of a teacher

Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

In Vygotsky's theory, another person who possesses expertise and can help you learn something

More Knowledge Other (MKO)

temporary support that is tailored to a learner's needs and abilities and aimed at helping the learner master the next task in a given learning process. Support is gradually withdrawn.

Scaffolding

an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be. Creating your own learning through interaction and environment.

Constructivism

a pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning), stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls, children mimicked play. Learning does not require direct experience.

Albert Bandura

the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

Reciprocal Determinism (Bandura)

Although he is a personality theorist - he did not propose a personality theory, but a trait of theory of personality.

Gordon Allport

Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, & Openness to experience. Each of these can be looked at in a spectrum, once all 5 dimensions are combined they yield a specific description of that person's personality.

McCrae & Costa's Big 5 personality traits

are not used as a performance based assessment because norm evaluates product while performance measures the process.

Norm-referenced tests

Can be given often, valid, reliable, detects small changes, and has object scoring.

Curriculum Based Assessments

Who's theory says that pretend play would be appropriate for a four year old?

Piaget

What is recommended for quality assessments?

validity, reliability, and lack of bias

What are the main sources of error in testing for reliability?

1. Factors in test given

2. Factors in the students being tested

3. Factors in scoring test

What ares some sources of bias?

1. Gender

2. Disability

3. Language

What is ipsative?

process of assessing present performance to their prior performance.

What are Renzulli's Three ring of conception of giftedness?

1. IQ

2. Creativity

3. Task Commitment

Does correlation equal causation?

No, correlation does not equal causation

What is not a characteristic of descriptive statistics?

Statistical significance

What is needed for cooperative learning?

Leadership skills and social skills, not problem solving skills

What are some reasons for cooperative learning?

teaching one another and face to face interaction. Fostering competition is not one of them.

Assistive technology must be what?

free, can be given for home and school use, must be on the IEP and given on a case by case basis.

What is a performance approach goal?

focuses on being more competent than others.

What is a mastery goal?

Desire to acquire additional knowledge or master new skills.

What is performance avoidance?

concerned with not failing or being judged.

What did McClelland find?

Those with high need for achievement actually do not work hard to achieve goals, more likely to give up on tasks that are difficult, need for efficacy and are more likely to exceed their father's employed status.

What are factors that are most predictive of a child's IQ at age 4?

Their SES and mother's educational level.

70% of ELL's speak what language?

Spanish

The Highschool beyond survey found what on academic tracking?

Academic tracking in HS did not reduce achievement differences in students of different SES but it did raise the chances of HS graduation and difference in black and whites, boys and girls.

Classroom rules should be:

stated in a positive manner, 3-5 rules only, observable behaviors, and not detailed and long.

Dan Olweus' bullying intervention program focuses on:

1. Individual level

2. Classroom level

3. Community level

Dan Olweus' bullying prevention program is for what grades?

Elementary, middle, and Junior HS not for highschool but still often used.

What are the factors contributing to the need for school safety?

More students from dysfunctional families, parents who are teens, and SPED students.

Goals for administration in safe school plan:

1. Providing leadership in developing, monitoring and evaluation plan

2. Setting up a program of constant tracking and reporting of school crime

3. Assuring safe traffic, to and from, and within schools by environment design

School safety council should include:

1. Members of school staff

2. Students

3. Some of the student's parents

What is correct in regard to ABA?

works well with ASD, IND, Brain injuries as well as classroom learning.

A counselor should not conduct:

One on one clinical therapy but can be part of IEP meetings.

Crisis management planning takes place where?

Building, district, and team level, not in classroom

Assessment instruments used to assess school climate:

Education, training, research character survey; tribes assessment questionnaire (1996), and CASE-1987

The DSM-V added what to better align it with Global healthcare organizations?

The World Health Organizations Disability Assessment Schedule to Section III

Can the school request behavioral consultation on any behavioral approach?

Yes, if the problem is serious enough.

According to the University of Maryland's laboratory for instruction consultation teams, what is the IC's goal?

To enhance, improve, and increase the performance of students & staff (goal is more broad and general). Objective is how will they achieve this goal.

Hippocampus:

Largest structure in the limbic system and is responsible for explicit memory.

Hypothalamus:

Regulates motivated behavior such as eating, drinking, and endocrine system.

Cerebellum:

A large structure of the hindbrain that controls fine motor skills such as body movement, balance, learning.

Amygdala:

regulates emotional states, aggression, and the acquisition of emotional memory.

Frontal lobe:

function of planning activities, making up his/her mind.

Parietal lobe:

processing information such as sensory information; touch, temperature, and pain.