School Psychology Praxis

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Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

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Sensorimotor (0-2)
Preoperational (2-6)
Concrete (6-11)
Formal (11 and up)

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Erickon's Psychosocial Stages of Development

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Basic Trust vs. Mistrust (0-1)
Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt (2-3)
Initiative vs Guilt (4-5)
Industry vs Inferiority (6-12)
Identity vs Role Confusion (13-19)

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Albert Bandura's Social Learning theory is based on

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Modeling

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4 stages of Bandura's Social Learning Theory

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Attention
Retention
Reproduction
Motivation

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Person/Client Centered Therapy was created by

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Carl Rogers

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Systematic desensitization was developed by who?

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Joseph Wolpe

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Name the case:
The percentage of minority students placed in special ed. classrooms cannot exceed the percentage in the representative population.

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Larry P. vs. Riles

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Consultation method:
This builds up the teachers skills to help/support their students.

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Consultee Centered Consultation

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What is a modification?

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A change in the task. (i.e. reducing the amount of work)

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What is an accommodation?

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A change in the environment (i.e. allowing the child to test in a alternate quiet room)

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What is Phonemic Awareness?

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The ability to hear, segment and manipulate word sounds. (i.e., say play, say play without the "p" = lay)

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Civil rights law that guarantees access to a school building and school curriculum. Focused on persons with handicaps

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Section 504

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Gives the right to a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment for all students

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IDEA 2004

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What is FERPA?

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Family Education Right to Privacy Act
Families have the right to review the records of their child and files must be kept confidential.

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Case Law:
Assessments must be administered in the native language of students.

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Diana vs. State Board of Education

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CASE LAW:
Schools must provide equal educational opportunities despite students' socioeconomic status.

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Hobson vs. Hansen

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CASE LAW:
Educational facilities cannot segregate based on race.

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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What created the Child Find program?

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IDEA of 97 part C

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CASE LAW:
What was the result of Honig vs. Doe?

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Manifest Determinations if a special ed. student is suspended for >10 days.

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This act allows special education students to receive vocational training

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Perkins Act

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CASE LAW:
You can have a higher percentage of minority students in special ed. IF appropriate and proper steps were taken for placement

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Marshall vs. Georgia

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Gifted Education IQ level

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>130

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Functions of the Left Hemisphere

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process familiar inforamtion, speech/language/writing

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Name the 4 lobes of the brain and their functions

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Frontal - executive functioning
Temporal - Auditory
Occipital - Visual
Parietal - Body Sensations

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CASE LAW:
PASE vs. Hannon

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Use of IQ tests in the context of the assessment process was not likely to result in racially or culturally discriminatory placement.

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CASE LAW:
Rowley vs. Board of Education

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Adequate education must be provided - doesn't have to be the BEST.

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What is Agnosia?

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The inability to recognize familiar objects and people.

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What is Aphasia?

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A language disorder
related to damage in Broca's or Wernicke's area.

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4 parts and functions of the Limbic System

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Amygdala - emotions
Hippocampus - strong emotional memories
Hypothalamus - primary emotions, sleep, hunger
Thalamus - sensory relay stations (visual and auditory)

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Functions of the right hemisphere

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nonverbal
New information processing

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What was the first IQ test made for children?

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Stanford-Binet

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NASP recommends school psychologist should supervise no more than # interns at one time.

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2

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NASP recommends what ratio of school psychs : students

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1:1000

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What part of the brain is associated with emotions and emotional response?

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Limbic System - Amygdala

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What two neurotransmitters are associated with the pathology of ADHD?

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Dopamine and Norepinephrine

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What is the WPSSI age range?

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2:6 - 7:3

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What test is based on the PASS theory of cognitive processing?

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CAS - Cognitive Assessment System

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Recommended minimum length between test and retest of the WISC-IV

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9 months

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Norm-referenced assessments for adaptive behavior rely on input from what two sources?

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Parent/caregiver
teacher

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The report of the National Reading Panel lists what 5 critical components for effective reading:

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Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension

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BEST PRACTICES:
When assessing for ED/EBD information should be obtained from what three sources?

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Parent report
Teacher report
direct assessment of the child

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What is SOMPA?

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System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment
Assess kids in a racially and culturally non-discriminatory manner
(created by PL94-142)

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This is the ability to solve problems through reasoning. It is not based on previously learned facts or techniques. Involves the ability to summarize and comprehend information to solve a task

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Fluid Reasoning

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What % of people comprise the bulk/center of the bell curve?

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68%

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What are the two main functions of behavior?

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to gain something positive
to escape something negative

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What are the primary components of a Functional Behavior Assessment?

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A-Antecedent
B-Behavior
C-Consequence

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What are the 5 factors that can interfere with obtaining accurate test results?

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Motivation
Fatigue
Undisclosed vision difficulties
Undisclosed hearing difficulties
Stress

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The ability to solve problems by applying learned facts and language

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Crystallized Intelligence

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What are the 3 stages of Kohlberg's moral development theory?

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1. Pre-conventional (behavior is motivated by avoidence of punishment)
2. Conventional (behavioral conformity of social norms and strives to avoid disapproval of others)
3. Post-conventional (centers on high ethics and moral principles of conscience)

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What is reliability?

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The ability of the test to produce similar results over time.

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What is validity

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A tests ability to measure what it purports to measure.

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CASE LAW:
School district has the duty to warn if a student is in danger

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Tarasoff vs. The Regents of the University of California, 1976

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Premack Principle

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Highly desireable event can be used as motivation for non-desirable event
"You have to finish your VEGETABLES (Low Frequency) before you can eat any ICECREAM (High Frequency)"

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Came up with the idea of "learned helplessness"

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Seligman

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What are the three subtypes of ADHD?

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ADHD Inattentive Type
ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive Type
ADHD Combined Type

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What law provides for children with ADHD?

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Section 504

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3 problems frequently exhibited by students with ADHD

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Do not achieve academic potential
May be higher at risk for grade retention and school drop out
Are less likely to pursue postsecondary education.

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Four pronged threat assessment model

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1. Personality of Student
2. School Dynamics and the students role in those dynamics
3. Social Dynamics
4. Family Dynamics

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According to NASP the two most effective interventions for reducing symptoms of ADHD are

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A combination of medication and behavioral interventions tends to yield the greatest improvement in social skills and school performance for students with ADHD.

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Evaluating ADHD should include (NASP):

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• formal observation in multiple settings
• interviews with the student and relevant adults
• rating scales completed by family, teachers, and the student
• developmental, school, and medical histories
• formal tests to measure attention, persistence, and related characteristics

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Attribution theory:

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How people attribute success or failure as due to internal or external factors (Dweck) ie. Internal or external locus of control

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Levels of Mental retardation

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55-69 (mild); 40-54(moderate); 40 and below (severe)

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Reality Therapy – who was it created by and what is it?

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Glasser
Centers on teaching people to take control of their lives by examining the choices they are making (how’s that working for you?)

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Validity Types – Convergent

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When a new test is correlated with an established test

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Type I Error

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State something is true, but it is really false (rejecting the null hypothesis)

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State something is true, but it is really false (rejecting the null hypothesis)

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Type I Error

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Type II Error

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When you state something is false, when it is really true (accepting the null hypothesis)

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CASE LAW:
Endorsed the use of standardized tests as long as they are not culturally biased and are used with other measures

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PASE vs. Hannon

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Rational Emotive Therapy was founded by whom?

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Ellis

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Part of the brain associated with higher order reasoning

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Cerebral Cortex

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Learning disorders affect __% of the population

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10-15%

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CASE LAW:

Schools must provide accommodations for ESL students

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Lau v. Nichols

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The role of a school psychologist following a school crisis

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Be highly visible and ready to link those in need with services

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The WISCIV assesses what five domains?

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Verbal, perceptual, memory, processing speed, and executive function

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The nonverbal section of ___ can be used to assess students who have language or hearing barriers

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DAS – Differential Abilities Scales

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Age range of the WISC-IV

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6 – 16:11

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PASS Stands for what?

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Planning, Attention, Simultaneous and Sequential Processing

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Social Skills Training typically involves what four processes?

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Instruction, rehearsing, providing feedback/reinforcement, and reducing negative behaviors

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Correlations above ___ are said to be strong and desirable for test purposes

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.70

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What does “readiness” refer to?

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A student’s biological and physiological maturational level to enter school.

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Noam Chomsky is known for being one of the fathers of what?

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Modern Linguistics

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Describe Thorndike's Theory of intelligence

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Made up of 3 clusters: social intelligence, concrete intelligence and abstract intelligence

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Describe Thurstone's Theory of intelligence

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7 primary ability factors each with equal weight: verbal comprehension, word fluency, number skills, memory, perceptual speed, inductive reasoning, spatial visualizations

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Describe Guilford's Theory of intelligence

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3 dimensions: Operations, content, products

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Describe the Cattell-Horn theory of intelligence

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2: Fluid reasoning & crystallized intelligence

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Describe Spearman's theory of intelligence

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2 components: g + one additional factor

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Vernon's theory of intelligence

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Hierarchical Theory of intelligence with g as the highest level

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Carroll's theory of intelligence

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3 Stratum Factor Analytic Theory of Cognitive abilities (Narrow-Stratum I, Broad-Stratum II, General –Stratum III)

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Sternberg's theory of intelligence

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Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
Analytical (componential)
Creative (experiential)
Practical (contextual)

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Gardner's theory of intelligence lists how many components?

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10

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Ceci's Intelligence theory focus' on what?

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Environment and Genetics influence intelligence

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Observation Strategies

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Narrative (running record), Interval (time sampling) Event Recording (document target behavior as it occurs) Rating (rate the behavior 1-5)