Cognitive Disabilities in EdPsych MCQ

The act of identifying or recognizing individual words while_____ is known as Word Recognition.

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Correct Answer: Reading

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Systematic Phonics Instruction is a program that focuses on teaching children to _____ phonemes and to then explicitly apply that knowledge to letter–sound correspondences and decoding.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Specific Learning Disabilities is the largest special education category of disability served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education _____ Act.

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Correct Answer: Improvement

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Response to Intervention is a method of identifying learning disabilities in which students identified as at risk for learning disabilities are given appropriate _____ interventions. Those who fail to respond to increasingly intensive interventions would be considered to have a learning disability.

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Correct Answer: Instructional

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Repeated Reading is an approach to increase _____ that involves reading a text multiple times.

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Correct Answer: Fluency

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A developmental delay in the use of counting procedures is known as Procedural Delay.

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Correct Answer: True

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Number Sense is the ability to represent _____ of objects, which is important for the development of counting and arithmetic skills.

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Correct Answer: Both

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An approach to implementing the least restrictive environment in which students with disabilities are placed with nondisabled peers in the general education classroom when appropriate (e.g., for music, gym, art) but remain in special education classrooms for most academic subjects is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Mainstreaming

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A legal requirement to place students with special needs in the regular classroom “to the _____ extent appropriate” is known as Least Restrictive Environment.

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Correct Answer: Maximum

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A method of identifying learning disabilities in which scores on standardized achievement tests in one or more academic subjects are significantly above what would be expected from the individual’s IQ is known as IQ- Achievement Discrepancy.

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Correct Answer: False

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_____ is a disability characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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IDEA requires the States to provide appropriate public education to students with disabilities aged _____

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Correct Answer: 3-21

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Individualized Education Plan is a plan for students with disabilities who are eligible for special education, which outlines curricula, educational modifications, and provision of services intended to enhance or improve the student’s _____ skills.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Inclusion is an approach to implementing the least restrictive environment in which students with disabilities, even those with severe disabilities, are integrated within the _____ education classroom.

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Correct Answer: Regular

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IEP is a team of individuals responsible for _____ a student’s IEP.

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Correct Answer: Both

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Fluency is the ability to read _____, which is a problem for many students with reading disability.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is a legislation that protects the privacy of students’ academic records by specifying that parents of children under _____ years of age may review the student’s school records, but parents must provide written permission in order for the school to release information about a student’s educational record.

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Correct Answer: 18

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Fact Retrieval Deficit is the most common deficit in mathematics disability characterized by the inability to commit facts to _____ -term memory and automatically retrieve them.

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Correct Answer: Long

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_____ is a criteria to be met in Dual Discrepancy Method.

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Correct Answer: The student performs below average compared with grade-level expectations

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Performance in a domain such as reading or mathematics that is poorer than same-age peers but similar to younger students, indicating a slower rate of development is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Developmental Delay

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Deficit is a performance in a domain like reading or mathematics that is poorer than both same-age peers and younger children, indicating an impairment in which students process information in a qualitatively different way than other individuals.

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Correct Answer: True

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The strategy of applying sounds to printed letters in order to identify unfamiliar words; referred to as _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Automaticity Training is a practice aimed at improving the _____ of reading or math skills, such as word recognition or math fact retrieval.

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Correct Answer: Both

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Alphabetic Principle is the knowledge that printed letters are represented by units of_____.

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Correct Answer: Sound

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Teachers can focus on getting students to use their fingers or manipulatives to help with ______.

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Correct Answer: Counting strategies

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Students with reading disability demonstrate deficits in ______.

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Correct Answer: Phonological awareness

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What percentage of the school population has a reading disability?

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Correct Answer: 3 to 10%

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Assessing the extent to which a student performs below grade level expectations and has a slow rate of improvement toward benchmarks is called the ______.

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Correct Answer: Dual discrepancy method

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“. . . a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in imperfect ability to listen, think, read, write, speak, or do mathematical calculations.” This quotation from IDEA 2004 refers to ______.

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Correct Answer: Specific learning disability

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All of the following groups may be more likely to be identified as requiring special education services EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Asian American students

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How do psychologists assess whether students have impairments in cognitive ability?

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Correct Answer: They administer IQ tests individually.

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The IEP team includes all of the following EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: A representative of the School Board

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About half of the special education population consists of students with ______.

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Correct Answer: Cognitive disabilities

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Which law defines students with disabilities?

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Correct Answer: IDEA

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