SPCE 680 Tests

SPCE 680 Tests In the development of a scale, when items are deemed to have lower than acceptable reliability, what steps are taken with those items to help ensure greater reliability? - ✔✔remove or edit items Kanner ...

SPCE 680 Tests In the development of a scale, when items are deemed to have lower than acceptable reliability, what steps are taken with those items to help ensure greater reliability? - ✔✔remove or edit items Kanner's early descriptions of autism included - ✔✔muteness and superior rote memory skills Indicate the first academic journal to focus on autism - ✔✔Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia With the updated DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, two core impairments have been emphasized in making a diagnosis, what are they? - ✔✔social interaction and communication Identify the autism subtype the DSM-5 abandoned. - ✔✔PDD not otherwise specified According to the DSM-5, preoccupations, fixated rituals and/or repetitive behaviors markedly interfering with functioning in all areas and requiring very substantive support would be considered a severity level of - ✔✔3 Asperger's early descriptions of autism included which of the following - ✔✔severe impairment of social interaction, narrow interests, good vocabulary, motor clumsiness The DSM-5 diagnostic criteria now allows older individuals to be classified with ASD; however, the signs of autism must have been present - ✔✔from quite early in childhood The Autism Diagnostic Interview, Revised (ADI-R) assesses all of the following EXCEPT - ✔✔developmental history Why is it important to know the reliability of a test? - ✔✔determine accuracy and amount of error in score Select the two individuals who first identified autism - ✔✔asperger and kanner When two measures are being compared, it is important for both to have high reliability coefficients because - ✔✔high reliabilities help ensure that differences are not due to chance Which of the following provides criteria that can be used by clinicians when making a diagnosis of autism? - ✔✔ICD According to our text, if a test has a reliability of .80 what kind of decision should it be used for? - ✔✔screening Which of the following is the correct sequence of steps to take in developing a scale to assess ASD? - ✔✔develop clear definitions of bx, create pool of items, run a pilot study Which of the following is the age range appropriate for using Psychoeducational Profile, Third Edition (PEP-3)? - ✔✔6mo to 7yr The primary reason autism subtypes were eliminated within the DSM-5 was due to - ✔✔difficulties making a dx because of the ambiguous distinctions between the various subtypes. What theory below was disproved by 1970 - ✔✔poor early mother-child relationship was cause of ASD The Autism Spectrum Rating Scale, (ASRS) is usually filled out by which of the following - ✔✔parents, teachers, clinicians What distinguishes the ADOS-2 from most other scales used to assess ASD? - ✔✔It is a measure that involves direct observation of the person being assessed It provides 5 separate modules geared for the subject's particular developmental and expressive language level The DSM-5 created a new diagnostic category, which was - ✔✔social communication disorder is characterized by "persistent difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication sufficiently severe as to interfere with social relationships, academic achievement, and occupational performance". - ✔✔social communication disorder According to the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, which of the following were considered subtypes of autism - ✔✔asperger, autistic, PDD The author of the text discusses several concerns related to the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. Which of the concerns below were discussed by the author - ✔✔possible adverse effects of early dx, concern about under-dx Identify the two disorders that are more characterized in the DSM-IV as degenerative disorders than autism disorders - ✔✔rhett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder According to the DSM-5, marked deficits in verbal and nonverbal social communication skills requiring substantive support would be considered a severity level of - ✔✔2