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
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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
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