Learning Behavior Specialist (LBS) 1 Practice Exam

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• What term describes differentiating a disability from related disabilities with overlapping characteristics?
• Internalizing symptoms are inward-directed; which option best describes such symptoms?
• Which describes severe brain injury with long loss of consciousness?
• Which term is used to refer to a broad category of reading problems that includes issues like dyslexia and decoding difficulties?
• Which term describes strategies aimed at changing behavior that involve learning principles, such as the use of reward?
• Which term refers to a biologically based behavioral style that includes emotionality, sociability, activity, and shyness?
• What term refers to the percentage of a trait's variation that can be explained by genetics?
• Which term describes a motor speech impairment?
• Which term best describes demonstration of active, talkative, and acting-out behavior patterns?
• What is the name of the written document required by IDEA that specifies related services for a student with a disability?
• Which setting aims to minimize segregation by blending students with disabilities into general education classrooms?
• Which term refers to the demonstration of internalizing behavior such as shyness or anxieties?
• What is the term for a learning difficulty specifically affecting written expression and handwriting?
• Which term refers to replacing unacceptable behavior with a more socially acceptable alternative?
• Which term refers to memory aids used to recall information?
• Which term describes speech without inflection?
• Which term describes the release of emotions by acting out?
• Which option best describes when UDL should be in place in planning and instruction?
• Which term refers to a thinking distortion arising from past experiences?
• Which approach to teaching reading relies on visually based retrieval of whole words (the basal reading approach)?
• In psychology, transferring emotions or patterns from one relationship to another is called what?
• Which term describes compensating for weak areas by relying on stronger areas, such as offsetting difficulties with gestures by using verbal skills?
• Which term describes behavior, thinking, or mood that is temporary and depends on conditions within the setting (time, task, persons, and amount of light or noise)?
• Which term describes lack of motivation or intentional ability to sustain effort to an area the child already has the skills to perform?
• Which term describes Specific Learning Disability in mathematics and reading?
• Which term describes the ability to take what the eyes see (color, form, and size) and give these visual sensations meaning to identify objects and words?
• Which option corresponds to the Learning Disability category in IDEA?
• A child for whom there are discrepancies between aptitude or IQ and actual performance on everyday schoolwork is called?
• Information that is important to the correct task performance is called what?
• An assessment of achievements, such as reading, as it changes over time as the result of intervention.
• Which term refers to the period around birth, including the time of childbirth?
• Which cognitive construct refers to the ability to maintain consistent attention during continuous or repetitive activity?
• Which term describes altering behavior by applying learning principles and reinforcement?
• Which category corresponds to Speech or Language Impairment?
• The ability to go beyond visual based concrete events to form visual concepts is known as which?
• Damage to which brain region can impair pragmatics in language and the nonverbal aspects of communication, such as sarcasm, humor, and irony?
• Which term denotes exceptional level of performance across multiple domains, with talent less heritable than the g factor?
• Which law, developed by Robert M. Yerkes and John D. Dodson, states that performance increases with arousal up to an optimal point and then declines as arousal becomes too high?
• Which term describes a broadly distributed brain injury that affects cognition?
• Children with such disorders often begin speaking late and progress more slowly through expressive language development.
• Which term is the brain's capacity to reorganize functions after injury?
• Which term describes the ability to gain meaning from text?
• Which term is commonly used to describe students who are identified as having advanced abilities in some domains?
• Which term denotes the outcome of a disability in terms of reduced functioning?
• Which term describes the progression of language complexity from single words to paragraphs, including inferences and humor?
• What term refers to a natural ability or intelligence across multiple domains such as verbal and mathematical?
• Which term describes mental or emotional information that guides behavior but is not a physical cue?
• Which condition causes unintelligible speech that sounds like gibberish?
• What abbreviation stands for Mild Intellectual Disability?
• What is the term for the reading instruction method that teaches visual letter symbols, their sounds, and the rules used to decode words and spell?
• The content, structure, and pragmatic social (everyday) use of language.
• Which term best describes a pattern of behavior that persists over an extended period?
• What term refers to scientifically tested practices that have demonstrated effectiveness?
• What term describes grammar and sentence construction, including rules for plurals and possessives?
• The level at which a child's disability is severe enough for labeling and to receive services is referred to as which term?
• What is the main U.S. Federal Law for special education that mandates Free Appropriate Public Education for each child with a disability?
• The brain's ability to form new connections after injury?
• Which term describes the ability to read text accurately and quickly (automatic)?
• Which term describes behavior that is highly variable and produces additional stimulation for the child?
• Which term describes a child whose actual school performance falls significantly below their measured aptitude?
• Which process involves breaking a task into sequential steps to achieve the overall task?
• Which term describes short, firm, immediate, and consistent reprimands?
• Which term describes involvement with the legal system?
• Which term describes the self-regulatory processes involved in identifying problems, setting goals, developing plans, and evaluating or monitoring plan implementation?
• Which term describes the ability to identify and understand one's own and others' emotions by reading facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice?
• Discrimination learning involves the ability to perceive differences between two stimuli presented for comparison. Which term describes this process?
• Which term describes having the behavior or social/emotional characteristics of both gender groups (male and female)?
• Which term describes accomplishments at specific ages?
• Assistive Technology is defined as which of the following?
• Which option best defines Assistive Technology?
• A form of damage to the brain resulting from cut nerve pathways.
• Impairment occurs after a period of normal development as the result of neurological or other general condition.
• Which category best describes Developmental Delay?
• Which term describes motivation driven by internal satisfaction rather than external rewards?
• Which concept is required to be provided under IDEA to ensure a free appropriate public education?
• Which term denotes a category in education describing emotional and behavioral challenges, often abbreviated in practice?
• In temperament, which component represents the tendency to prefer the presence of others?
• Which entity is typically responsible for implementing the IEP at the local level?
• Verbal Learning Disability: difficulty with language-based subject areas of reading, spelling, and composition. Problems with talking and listening may be early indicators.
• Which term describes a localized brain injury?
• Which IDEA category encompasses Hearing Impairment?
• The abbreviation FAS stands for which condition?
• Which term describes false memories believed true?
• What does OHI stand for in the context of health impairments that can affect educational performance?
• Which term describes the motivation to act directed toward self-selected interests and goals, evaluated against one's own standards or past performance?
• Which term describes dangerous or risky?
• Which term identifies the ability to recognize words and sentences from sounds, including blending or breaking words into syllables?
• Which term denotes a natural ability or intelligence across multiple domains such as verbal, logical-mathematical, and musical?
• Which is typically the least restrictive environment for a child with a disability?
• Which neuroimaging method measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow during task performance?
• Which term describes localized brain damage affecting a specific area?
• What is the term for fatigue resulting from the effort to overcome skill deficits or meet school demands?
• Direct instruction in subcomponents of individual social skills, modeled and reinforced for each step that approximates correct achievement, is called what?
• What is the term for the ability to maintain a consistent behavioral or cognitive response during continuous or repetitive tasks?
• In temperament, which component indicates the degree to which a person tends to become upset?
• Which term is used to describe a behavior management approach that emphasizes reward-based change?
• Verbal explanations presented concurrently with visuals?
• ADHD tends to show a bias toward certain stimuli such as movement, color, emotion, or novelty. What is this bias called?
• Which term describes the tendency to focus attention on certain stimuli that are salient to a disorder, such as movement or novelty in ADHD?
• What term is used for quantity concept?
• Which term defines a disability factor with external etiology?
• Which term describes mild brain injury from less severe or focal injuries?
• Which term denotes the quantity of language produced?
• Which concept best captures the sense of control over one’s decisions and plans?
• Which term denotes the general intelligence factor associated with efficient processing across multiple brain areas?
• Which term refers to deliberate techniques for retaining information in memory?
• ADHD-HI stands for which presentation of ADHD?
• Which term refers to damage affecting large areas of the brain with major changes in cognition and adaptive behavior?
• Which brain region is primarily involved in planning, impulse control, and social behavior?
• Which term describes a disorder of reading or decoding that is often accompanied by spelling problems?
• Which IDEA disability category describes individuals with both vision and hearing impairments?
• Which term describes false memories that a person believes to be true?
• What is the meaning underlying verbalization?
• Universal Design for Learning is a philosophy about designing classroom practices usable by the widest range of capabilities. When should UDL be implemented?
• Which term refers to the pattern where early reading success or difficulty influences future reading development?
• Which neuroimaging method is used to measure brain activity by monitoring changes in blood flow during tasks?
• CD is the abbreviation for which disorder?
• Which term describes the loss of memory for events surrounding a period of time?
• Factors in a disability that have their etiology outside the person.
• Which term describes the skills and curriculum related to the use of money, time, and measurement?
• Which practice involves focusing attention on the self and may involve cueing to record behavior or feelings?
• Which IDEA category includes Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?
• Strategies for retaining material in memory include rehearsal, repetition, clustering, and grouping similar things. This is known as what?
• What assessment focuses on analyzing a child's behavior in specific settings, tasks, or with specific persons to understand how the child adapts to immediate surrounding conditions?
• Which term refers to the release of emotions by acting out?
• Which term corresponds to Specific Learning Disability (SLD)?
• Which approach emphasizes providing multiple means of representation, engagement, and expression to support diverse learners?
• Which term refers to motivation to act directed toward the goals of others and evaluated by others' standards?
• Which term is most associated with planning, organizing, and self-monitoring one's actions toward a goal?
• ADHD-HI stands for which description?
• What term describes saying something in a roundabout way instead of naming it?
• Which term refers to the meaning of surrounding words and pictures that help decode unknown words and capture meaning?
• Which term refers to the process of replacing inappropriate behavior with a more acceptable alternative?
• Which term describes applying what has been learned in one setting to another setting?
• Which cognitive construct is defined as the ability to maintain performance during extended or repetitive tasks and can be affected by right-hemisphere damage?
• Which term is used to describe the purposeful actions taken to achieve a specific outcome?
• Which type of intelligence is typically assessed by speeded processing of novel stimuli such as mazes or blocks?
• Which term describes individuals who are both gifted and have co-occurring disabilities such as learning disabilities or ADHD?
• Which term describes information that is not salient and is difficult to notice, such as the organization of an assignment?
• Which term is used to describe a set of procedures that apply learning principles to decrease or increase behavior?
• Which area covers everyday, practical language used for social communication, with deficits sometimes seen in pragmatic language?
• The degree to which language involves more than the concrete naming of things and moves to descriptions of objects (adjectives), and use of abstract prepositions, along this continuum: (a) single words- nouns, adjectives, prepositions, (b) phrases and sentences (following directions), (c) paragraphs and stories, (d) cause and effect, (e) drawing of inferences, (f) fact versus opinion, (g) absurdities and humor, (h) idioms and figures of speech
• What term refers to the ability to read text accurately and quickly, almost automatically?
• Which term describes persisting over time?
• Which memory system involves immediate recall of 3 to 9 elements within seconds when rehearsal is prevented?
• Which educational approach uses structured lessons in actual settings like workplace or home?
• Which skills involve understanding language, including listening and reading?
• Which term describes generating multiple strategies for responding in a social situation and selecting the best one?
• Which term describes a broad category for reading problems, including dyslexia and related decoding issues?
• The quantity or amount of language spoken or written.
• Which term is the application of information, elements, or problem solving process to novel situations or tasks?
• DSM-IV-TR stands for which of the following?
• What is the typical default classroom setting for a student who requires the least restrictive environment?
• Repetitive tasks that lack variation, such as drills in math or handwriting, are known as what?
• Which term is used for a language disorder that arises after a period of normal development due to an underlying neurological condition?
• Immediate and typically short-term.
• Which term refers to abilities an individual is born with (congenital)?
• Deficits in which area include difficulty taking the perspective of others during conversation?
• Which term describes the process of translating letters to sounds?
• Which term describes the ability to recall information such as math facts or events from the past?
• Which brain region plays an important role in human behavior, with damage affecting high-level cognitive functions, social behavior, personality, memory, and self-awareness?
• The full-scale IQ is formed by combining verbal and performance scales; what term is used for this overall score?
• Which term describes the pattern that reading difficulties can spread to other subject areas and are associated with a downward spiral of motivation?
• Which term describes learning to differentiate between similar stimuli?
• Which term denotes a thinking bias that arises from past experiences and influences interpretation of events?
• Which term refers to the free, appropriate public education required by IDEA?
• Listening disorders that are severe and involve, for example, poor awareness of, attention to, and discrimination of sounds; poor association of sounds with symbols; poor recall of sound sequences; and overall slowed processing rate.
• Which term describes the lack of ability to perform tasks due to insufficient training or experience?
• Which term describes a pattern in which individuals attribute their successes to external factors and their failures to lack of ability?
• Which term describes behavior in practical everyday functioning needed to live independently and interact with others?
• In behavior assessment, FA is commonly used as an abbreviation for which term?
• Which method of education uses structured lessons in actual settings such as workplace or home?
• Which term best describes the capacity to recall information from the past, such as math facts learned earlier?
• Which term means nonverbal communication using gestures, facial expressions, or visual symbols?
• Which term is most closely associated with emotional disturbance and emotional behavioral disorder, with one label favored in schools?
• Which term refers to the use of spoken and written language to express ideas?
• Which term describes the process of interpreting and understanding sounds, including decoding words?
• Which term is used to describe gifted students who are underrepresented in gifted education due to cultural, linguistic, or economic factors?
• Which term is associated with errors in which the words within sentences, sentences within paragraphs, and ideas within compositions are out of order or poorly organized, including ending errors?
• Which chemical transmits signals between neurons in the brain?
• Which memory technique uses acronyms or silly phrases to help recall verbal information?
• Which term corresponds to the reading method that uses letter sounds to decode words?
• Which term describes attention directed toward external stimuli in the context of ADHD?
• What term refers to understanding the properties of numbers without performing precise calculations?
• Which term describes a pattern of seeking stimulation through variable behavior?
• Which term describes a warning sensation that may precede a seizure?
• Which concept describes the state of feeling in control and able to make one's own decisions and have one's own plans?
• Which area is NOT typically listed as an adaptive area?
• Bruising of brain tissues, contusions, can cause bleeding and toxic effects.
• Tools such as mind maps and outlines used to visualize ideas are called what?
• Which term is the inability to stop verbal or motor responses that are often socially inappropriate?
• Which personality trait involves overly fast responding and acting without considering consequences?
• Which term describes the ability to sustain a wide array of interests, openness to novel experiences, and applying knowledge to novel problems?
• Which of the following is NOT a component of temperament?
• Gains in knowledge that are unplanned or unintended are called what?
• Which approach is described as teaching reading by recognizing whole words rather than decoding letter by letter?
• Which term refers to the cognitive system that temporarily stores and manipulates information needed for complex tasks?
• Which term implies a management approach that uses specific, planned consequences to alter behavior?
• Which term refers to different and socially more appropriate ways to achieve the same goals (such as asking questions rather than talking excessively)?
• Which term describes devices and methods that provide technological support for language and can bypass the oral system?
• Which term describes learning by observing an adult or peer perform a behavior in a feared situation?
• What is the process of translating visual symbols into sounds called?
• Which term describes the hiding of a disability by giftedness, or the hiding of giftedness by a disability?
• Which term describes a general education classroom that includes students with disabilities?
• Which term describes cues that precede the desired behavior in time and serve as reminders?
• Which field studies the physical production of sounds?
• Which term describes holding information in mind to plan, sequence, summarize, reorganize, and problem solve?
• What term refers to the statistical average or most frequently occurring score?
• Which abbreviations refer to Intellectual Disability and Mild Intellectual Disability?
• What is the term for communication without verbal language, using gestures, postures, facial expressions, and symbols?
• Saying something in a roundabout way rather than naming an object directly is called what?
• Which framework emphasizes early, systematic screening and escalating levels of intervention based on student progress?
• Which term describes behavior that is against the social order or rules?
• What term refers to the meaning of words and pictures that surround unknown words, which readers may use to decode unknown words and derive meaning?
• In assessment terminology, which term is a distinguishing characteristic or identifying feature?
• Which term describes the spreading of reading difficulties to other subject areas, accompanied by a downward spiral of motivation?
• What term precedes a particular behavior, such as time, setting, or task?
• Which term refers to thoughts, feelings, strategies, values, and the like?
• In gifted education, which grouping strategy is designed to place the most advanced learners together?
• LEA stands for Local Educational Agency.
• What term describes the psychological activation of a child, including trait qualities and state qualities that depend on setting conditions?
• Which term is used for the combined verbal and performance IQ score?
• What term describes the general intelligence factor that reflects the brain's ability to pull together different functions across multiple regions?
• Which term describes the broad set of cognitive processes that support learning across domains, including memory, perception, and attention?
• What is the name for a specific learning disability in mathematics?
• Which term describes difficulty with language-based academic areas such as reading and spelling?
• In assessments, what is the distinguishing characteristic called that differentiates conditions?
• Which term describes the process of applying what has been learned in one setting to other settings or contexts?
• Which term describes achievements or tasks expected by certain ages?
• The most common brain injury occurs when head accelerates rapidly and stops or is shaken.
• Which statement best describes an IEP?
• Which term describes responses that occur only at certain times or in certain situations?
• Internalizing symptoms are best described as inward-directed symptoms such as mood concerns.
• What does AAC stand for in the context of communication support?
• Which term describes changes in the setting or task made by the teacher to elicit optimal responding from the student?
• Which of the following would be considered an accommodation?
• Which term describes lack of ability or lack of educational experience in 'how to do something'?
• Which term refers to devices that support language production and comprehension for individuals with limited speech?
• Which term encompasses psychological processes that contribute to learning, including intelligence, memory, perception/discrimination, and attention?
• Which term is defined as 'Directed toward obtaining a goal'?
• Which term denotes difficulty with mathematics despite adequate instruction?
• Which term describes repetitive tasks that lack variation or novelty, such as drills?
• The determination of whether a student's misconduct is an outcome of the child's disability is known as what?
• Which term stands for emotional disturbance and emotional behavioral disorder; the latter is the more commonly used term?
• Which term describes disorders that cause individuals to express feelings inwardly and thus increase the likelihood of anxiety and/or depression?
• Which term best fits the statement: "Students spell words exactly the way they sound and not the way they look"?
• Which term refers to seeing something again in one's mind?
• What term describes an enduring pattern of behavior and personality traits?
• ADHD, inattentive subtype is best described as which designation?
• Which term describes seeing a memory again in the mind?
• What term describes gifted students who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds or belong to minority or linguistically diverse cultures?
• What does SES stand for in the context of student characteristics?
• ADHD stands for what disorder?
• What term describes grouping of students who are similar in one or more characteristics, such as clustering the most advanced learners together?
• Which term denotes bruising of brain tissue?