Special Education Praxis 5354 Updated Actual Questions And Correct Answers

SPECIAL EDUCATION PRAXIS 5354 UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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1. American Psychiatric Association
Answer:
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) used to diagnose axes

Question:
2. Psychiatric Axes
Answer:
Axis I principal psychiatric diagnosis (over anxious disorder) Axis II Developmental Problems
(developmental reading disorder) Axis III Physical Disorder (allergies) Axis IV Psychosocial stressors
(divorce) Axis V Rating of the highest level of adaptive functioning (includes intellectual and social)
called Global Assessment Functioning (GAF)

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3. Externalizing Behavior
Answer:
Aggressive behaviors expressed outwardly toward others, Manifested as hyperactivity persistent
aggression irritating behaviors that are impulsive and distractable

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4. Internalizing Behavior
Answer:
Withdrawing behaviors that are directed inward to oneself, social withdrawal, Depression, fears,
phobias, elective mutism, withdrawal, anorexia, and bulimia

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5. Walker Problem Identification Checklist
Answer:
student behavior assessment instruments - acting out, withdrawal, distractibility, disturbed peer
relations, immaturity

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6. Burks' Behavior Rating Scales (BBRS)
Answer:
student behavior assessment instruments - excessive self-blame, excessive anxiety, excessive
withdrawal, excessive dependency, poor ego strength, poor coordination, poor etc...

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7. Devereux Behavior Rating Scale (Adolescent)
Answer:
student behavior assessment instruments - unethical behavior, defiant-resistive, domineering-sadistic,
heterosexual interest, hyperactive expansive, poor emotional control, need approval dependency,
emotional disturbances, physical inferiority timidity, schizoid withdrawal, bizarre speech cognition
and actions

, Question:
8. Revised Behavior Problem Checklist (Quay & Peterson)
Answer:
student behavior assessment instruments - major scales, conduct disorder, socialized aggression,
attention problems - immaturity, anxiety, psychotic behavior, motor excess

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9. P.L. Newcomer Degree of Disturbance
Answer:
Criteria: precipitating events, destructiveness, maturational appropriateness, personal functioning,
social functioning, reality index, insight index, conscious control, social responsiveness Degree of
disturbance: mild, moderate, severe

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10. Communication competence
Answer:
interaction of cognitive competence, social knowledge, language competence

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11. Mean Length of Utterance
Answer:
(MLU) L 1.5-2 14 basic morphemes (in on, articles, possessive) Ll 2-2.5 beginning of pronoun use,
auxiliary verbs Lll 2.5-3 Language forms of approximate adult forms; beginning of questions and
negative statements IV 3-3.5 Use of complex sentences V 3.5-4 use of compound sentences

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12. Morphemes
Answer:
smallest units of language that are words

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13. Phonolgy
Answer:
the system of rules about sounds and combinations

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14. Free morphemes
Answer:
units that can stand alone as root words such as walk or dog

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15. Bound morphemes
Answer:
morphological units that do not stand alone prefixes, suffixes

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16. Morphology