Deck 7: Testing Special Populations

Question 1

The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale is unique because

A) it has high predictive validity for adult behavior
B) it emphasizes the need to document the contributions of the newborn to the parent-infant system
C) it is the only test that has achieved high reliability rates for infants less than a year old
D) all the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following Wechsler subtests) is/are found only on the WPPSI-III?

A) Sentences
B) Geometric Design
C) Animal Pegs
D) none of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In an attempt to improve predictive validity, the most recent infant tests have assessed

A) brain waves
B) Piagetian skills
C) visual habituation
D) none of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The _________uses 28 behavior items, 18 reflexes and 7 qualities of responsiveness to assess an infant's behavioral repertoire.

A) Bayley-III
B) Early Screening Inventory-3 DIAL-3)
C) Developmental Assessment of Young Children DAYC)
D) Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale NBAS)

Question 5

The age range for the WPPSI-III extends downward to about

A) 2 years & 6 months
B) 4 years & 6 months
C) 3 years & 6 months
D) 5 years & 6 months

Question 6

The NBAS has shown sensitivity to

A) the impact of depressed mothers
B) changes in feeding behavior of premature infants
C) prenatal cocaine exposure
D) all the above

Question 7

The distinctive feature of the "early SB5" is that it

A) extends down to age 1
B) includes a Test Observation Checklist
C) includes additional subtests
D) all of the above

Question 8

This instrument was developed, in part, to explore the baby's reciprocal impact on parents:

A) Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II
B) Early Screening Inventory-Revised ESI-R)
C) Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development
D) Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

Question 9

The Bayley-III includes the following scales):

A) cognitive scale
B) motor scale
C) adaptive behavior scale
D) all of the above

Question 10

Parents who receive feedback based upon this instrument rated their infants as significantly more predictable than a control group:

A) Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II
B) Early Screening Inventory-Revised ESI-R)
C) Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development
D) Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

Question 11

Which infant test utilizes a distinctive recognition approach?

A) Denver Developmental Screening Test
B) Hunt-Uzgiris Scales
C) Bayley Scales of Infant Development
D) Fagan's Test of Infant Intelligence

Question 12

What term does the Differential Ability Scales-II use as its composite score in lieu of the more traditional language of IQ?

A) Cognitive Flexibility Capacity CFC)
B) General Conceptual Ability GCA)
C) Conceptual Cognitive Range CCR)
D) General Cognitive Capacity GCC)

Question 13

In general, the Differential Ability Scales-II is thought to have

A) high reliability, low validity
B) low validity, high reliability
C) high reliability, high validity
D) low reliability, low validity

Question 14

This instrument was developed, in part, to sensitize parents to their baby's uniqueness and to promote a positive parent-infant relationship.

A) Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II
B) Early Screening Inventory-Revised ESI-R)
C) Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development
D) Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

Question 15

The age range for the Bayley-III is

A) 1 to 42 months
B) 2 to 60 months
C) 6 to 60 months
D) 6 to 120 months

Question 16

Regarding the predictive value of infant tests,

A) when scores are near normal or higher, the tests possess little or no predictive validity
B) for infants who score in the lowest few percentiles, infant tests validly predict a handicapped outcome in childhood
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b

Question 17

Which statement is most true of Fagan's Test of Infant Intelligence?

A) it performs better as a predictive tool than as a screening test
B) it performs better as a screening test than as a predictive tool
C) it is known for its high reliability for infants
D) both a and c

Question 18

For technical quality and standardization, the best infant test is probably the

A) Gesell Developmental Schedules
B) Denver Developmental Screening Test
C) Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
D) Bayley-III

Question 19

In terms of scoring, the Bayley-III

A) yields scaled subscale scores Mean=10, SD=3).
B) yields an overall composite score akin to an IQ score on a traditional test
C) yields three composite scores reported as a standard score M=500, SD=15)
D) none of the above

Question 20

The Stanford-Binet Intelligences Scale for Early Childhood SB5) includes a component that

A) helps identify problematic behaviors that may affect test scores
B) provides documentation to aid in early detection of developmental difficulties
C) summarizes test-taking behaviors
D) all the above

Question 21

The following is an example of a problem factor assessed on the DECA-C:

A) attachment disruptions
B) learning problems
C) attention problems
D) cognitive deficits

Question 22

On the Denver-II, interrater reliability among trained raters is about

A) .80
B) .90
C) .95
D) .99

Question 23

School-readiness is often considered controversial because:

A) it is particularly susceptible to tester bias
B) schools often insist on being the sole administrators of school readiness tests
C) it originated around now-discredited testing practices
D) it often has critical implications such as school entry

Question 24

The HOME scale relies upon

A) direct observation of the children's home
B) parental ratings on 27 variables
C) knowledge of occupation, residence, and education
D) none of the above

Question 25

A screening instrument should be

A) used to establish diagnosis
B) brief
C) administered by trained psychologists
D) all the above

Question 26

Which of the following is a common pitfall in screening in infancy and early childhood?

A) ignoring screening results
B) relying on informal clinical methods
C) using inappropriate tests
D) all the above

Question 27

The correlations between HOME scores at 12 months of age and Stanford-Binet IQ at 36 months were about

A) .2
B) .4
C) .6
D) .8

Question 28

Traditional measures of social class usually rely upon

A) occupation
B) place of residence
C) education
D) all of the above

Question 29

The most widely known and researched pediatric screening tool in the United States is probably the

A) Gesell Developmental Schedules
B) Denver II
C) Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development
D) Bayley Scales of Infant Development

Question 30

What are the three developmental domains on the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning-III DIAL-III)?

A) Motor, Spatial, Vocabulary
B) Motor, Concepts, Language
C) Spatial, Vocabulary, Motor
D) Processing, Motor, Ability

Question 31

In screening for school readiness, which kind of error is potentially more serious?

A) False positive
B) False negative
C) both of the above are equally serious

Question 32

The following is not an example of a protective factor assessed on the DECA-C:

A) initiative
B) self-control
C) attachment
D) intelligence

Question 33

It appears that the Denver II may

A) yield too many False positives
B) yield too many False negatives
C) be too difficult to administer
D) all the above

Question 34

The __________of the DIAL-III has drawn the most skepticism.

A) practical utility
B) reliability
C) construct validity
D) criterion-related validity

Question 35

One problem with the HOME is that the standardization samples contain____ lower- SES families.

A) no
B) too few
C) too many
D) an unknown percentage of

Question 36

The proportion of cases accurately "flagged" as having a problem is known as

A) sensitivity
B) specificity
C) False positives
D) False negatives

Question 37

The WPPSI-IV is:

A) a commonly used measure of young children's cognitive functioning
B) an assessment of preschool social and emotional functioning
C) primarily used to diagnose behavioral problems
D) an extension of the Stanford-Binet

Question 38

The HOME is available in_________ form(s).

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 39

Completion of the HOME inventory takes about

A) 10 minutes
B) 1 hour
C) 3 hours day
D) 1 day

Question 40

The Denver-II provides assessment in the following domains):

A) language
B) personal-social
C) fine motor-adaptive
D) all of the above

Question 41

Which of the following is not a subtest of the Leiter-R?

A) Design Analogies
B) Matching
C) Vocabulary
D) Picture Context

Question 42

The format of the items in the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-3 is very similar to

A) Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised
B) Shipley Institute of Living Scale
C) Raven's Progressive Matrices
D) none of the above

Question 43

Hiskey-Nebraska scores correlate about _____with WISC-R Performance IQ.

A) .25
B) .45
C) .65
D) .85

Question 44

Items were selected for the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-3 on the basis of

A) item-total correlations
B) difficulty level
C) acceptability to users
D) all of the above

Question 45

In the______ , the________ mandated that disabled school children receive appropriate assessment and educational opportunities.

A) 1960s, Education for All Handicapped Children Act
B) 1970s, Education for All Handicapped Children Act
C) 1960s, Intellectual Disability Rights Act
D) 1970s, Intellectual Disability Rights Act

Question 46

Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised has been shown to be effective with

A) children with autism
B) children with ADHD
C) children with language impairment
D) all the above

Question 47

The Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test is an)

A) projective measure of personality
B) measure of intellectual giftedness
C) index of intellectual maturity
D) none of the above

Question 48

The instructions for the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test convey that the examinee should draw

A) a picture of a man
B) anything of interest to the examinee
C) a family consisting of husband, wife, son, and daughter
D) a house, tree, and person

Question 49

Items on the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-3 consist of

A) simple matching
B) analogies
C) classification
D) all of the above

Question 50

Validity studies support the views) that the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-3 is

A) a good measure of general intelligence
B) mainly a measure of nonverbal intelligence
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b

Question 51

This instrument can be traced back to the early 1900s.

A) Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test
B) Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-3
C) Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised
D) Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III

Question 52

Correlations between the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test and WWPSI Full Scale IQ have been found to be in the range of

A) .10 to .30
B) .30 to .50
C) .60 to .80
D) consistently above .80

Question 53

The Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised contains all of the following kinds of items EXCEPT

A) Reasoning
B) Visualization
C) Memory
D) Processing Speed

Question 54

The Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude was specially designed for_____ children.

A) hearing-impaired
B) visually-impaired
C) cognitively impaired
D) minority

Question 55

Using the Hiskey-Nebraska for purposes of classification increases the risk of

A) labeling children as gifted when they are only bright
B) classifying children as retarded when they are merely borderline
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b

Question 56

The best known and most widely used of the nonreading, motor-reduced tests is the

A) Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-3
B) Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test
C) Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4
D) Columbia Mental Maturity Scale

Question 57

Instructions for the Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised

A) are standardized through the use of a tape recorded, step-by-step message
B) require the examiner to demonstrate the first several test items
C)are minimal or nonexistent because the nature of the test is obvious
D) none of the above

Question 58

The Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised is

A) timed but has a generous time limit
B) timed and highly speeded
C) untimed

Question 59

Persons with cerebral palsy may show

A) motor deficits
B) tendency to fatigue
C) problems with purposive movements
D) all of the above

Question 60

The age range for the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-3 is

A) 5 through 12
B) 5 through 15
C) 6 through 65
D) 6 through 89

Question 61

How many levels of intellectual disability are formally recognized by diagnostic manuals?

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Question 62

To be eligible for government benefits, what is considered legally blind?

A) 20/80 or less in their better eye
B) 20/100 or less in their better eye
C) 20/150 or less in their better eye
D) 20/200 or less in their better eye

Question 63

What is the primary rationale for the current use of the term intellectual disability, which was historically referred to as mental retardation?

A) the new term emphasizes a more hopeful ecological perspective that focuses on the person-environment interaction
B) the new term carries less negative connotations
C) the new term is used to reflect the name change of the authoritative 130-year- old agency now called the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
D) both b and c

Question 64

Most of the items from the Blind Learning Aptitude Test were adapted from

A) Raven's Progressive Matrices
B) Culture Free Intelligence Test
C) Stanford-Binet
D) both a and b

Question 65

The first standardized instrument for assessing adaptive behavior was the

A) Vineland Social Maturity Scale
B) Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
C) Scales of Independent Behavior
D) Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales

Question 66

What is the content of the Perkins-Binet?

A) retains verbal items only from the Stanford-Binet
B) retains verbal items and includes adapted tactual items
C) retains performance items only
D) none of the above

Question 67

The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4 is_____ and seldom takes longer than ______to complete.

A) timed, 15 minutes
B) untimed, 15 minutes
C) timed, 1 hour
D) untimed, 1 hour

Question 68

The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4 has questionable applicability to

A) children under the age of 10
B) children with cerebral palsy
C) Native American children

Question 69

According to the text, why are haptic subtests important for using with visually impaired children?

A) to avoid the risk of an incomplete or one-sided picture
B) visually-impaired children are unable to take any of the subtests on the WISC- R
C) haptic subtests are easier to administer
D) all the above

Question 70

What are acceptable ways to test individuals who are deaf?

A) use a sign language interpreter
B) use parents or teachers to serve as sign language interpreters
C) refer to an examiner who is fluent in sign language
D) all of the above

Question 71

Validity studies support the use of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4 as a

A) narrow measure of vocabulary
B) general measure of intelligence
C) specific measure of pictorial intelligence
D) all of the above

Question 72

For training and rehabilitation purposes, examiners might wish to use (an)_____ measure of adaptive behavior.

A) norm-referenced
B) criterion-referenced
C) intelligence-based
D) none of the above

Question 73

One caution in using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4 is that the standard scores

A) have an atypical standard deviation of 10
B) may be lower than Wechsler IQs for minorities
C) are based upon a very small standardization sample
D) all of the above

Question 74

The format for the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4 is:

A) from four line drawings, the examinee points to the single choice which best illustrates a spoken word
B) from a single line drawing, the examinee identifies the typed word which is best exemplified by the drawing
C) the examinee draws a picture to illustrate each word in a list of words of increasing difficulty
D) none of the above

Question 75

The definition of adaptive behavior emphasizes

A) personal independence
B) social responsibility
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b

Question 76

An IQ in the intellectual disability range is close to ______standard deviation below average.

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Question 77

The three areas of adaptive functioning delineated by AAIDD are:

A) social, intellectual, verbal
B) practical, verbal, performance
C) verbal, conceptual, social
D) conceptual, social, practical

Question 78

Intellectual disability is characterized as

A) significant limitations in intellectual functioning
B) impairments in adaptive behavior
C) difficulties arising before age 18
D) all of the above

Question 79

Which subtests remain the tool of choice for intellectual assessment of persons who are deaf or hard of hearing?

A) Wechsler verbal
B) Wechsler performance
C) Leiter International Verbal
D) Leiter International Performance

Question 80

________is a tactile test for children from 6 to 16 years of age who are blind.

A) Perkins-Binet
B) Haptic Intelligence Scale for the Adult Blind HISAB)
C) Blind Learning Aptitude Test BLAT)
D) Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised