LICENSED EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST EXAM
GENERAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Metacognition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Refers to Knowledge and self-awareness about one's own
thoughts & abilities. Thinking about one's own mental processes
School Readiness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Related to a condition that exists when maturation is
sufficiently developed to allow the rapid acquisition of basic academic skills
Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Cognitive Behavioral approach to change
behavior, therapist examines clarity of thinking & faulty beliefs. Thought is that people's difficulties &
problems stem from choices they make. Emphasizes confrontational techniques regarding irrational
beliefs
Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The UNIT is best suited for
deaf students or students who do not speak English
Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A law that requires all
children be identified for special services by school districts
Cognitive Test (IQ) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅typically used to predict future learning
Achievement Test - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Developed to measure skills & knowledge learned in a
given grade level, usually through planned instruction, such as classroom instruction
Two (2) Functions of a behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Gain something positive or escape
something negative
Family Education Right to Privacy Act (FERPA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The act gives families the
right to review the records of their child, files must be kept confidential, public "does not" have legal
privilieges.."can not" review a student's file, confidentiality is central to this law
, Aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Inability to use language
Agnosia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅inability to identify seen objects
Left Hemisphere of brain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Language, speaking, writing, math, &
coordinating some complex movements
Right Hemisphere of brain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Aids in recognizing patterns, faces, spatial
relations, and recognizing emotions
Cerebral Cortex - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Associated with higher order reasoning
ADHD & Frontal Lobes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Dysfunction within the frontal lobes.
Hippocampus - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Important for forming memories because of its role in
associating emotions with events
Four (4) major lobes of the brain that play a role in processing information & regulating behavior -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1) Frontal Lobe-executive functioning, helps with planning future actions &
regulate behavior 2) Parietal Lobe-helps to assimilate body sensation, develop symbolic association &
math skills 3) Temporal Lobe-processing auditory information & implicated in reading problems
4)Occipital Lobe-Responsible for processing visual information
Self-dialogue (self-talk) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Cognitive approach to change behavior. Vital to
understanding what a student is saying before, during, and after a undesirable act. Change self-talk can
change behaviors
Responce Cost - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Response cost or negative punishment is another way to
make behavior less frequent. It is therefore a form of punishment. It occurs when a stimulus is taken
away as a consequence of behavior and the effect is to reduce the frequency of the behavior.
GENERAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Metacognition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Refers to Knowledge and self-awareness about one's own
thoughts & abilities. Thinking about one's own mental processes
School Readiness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Related to a condition that exists when maturation is
sufficiently developed to allow the rapid acquisition of basic academic skills
Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Cognitive Behavioral approach to change
behavior, therapist examines clarity of thinking & faulty beliefs. Thought is that people's difficulties &
problems stem from choices they make. Emphasizes confrontational techniques regarding irrational
beliefs
Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The UNIT is best suited for
deaf students or students who do not speak English
Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A law that requires all
children be identified for special services by school districts
Cognitive Test (IQ) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅typically used to predict future learning
Achievement Test - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Developed to measure skills & knowledge learned in a
given grade level, usually through planned instruction, such as classroom instruction
Two (2) Functions of a behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Gain something positive or escape
something negative
Family Education Right to Privacy Act (FERPA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The act gives families the
right to review the records of their child, files must be kept confidential, public "does not" have legal
privilieges.."can not" review a student's file, confidentiality is central to this law
, Aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Inability to use language
Agnosia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅inability to identify seen objects
Left Hemisphere of brain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Language, speaking, writing, math, &
coordinating some complex movements
Right Hemisphere of brain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Aids in recognizing patterns, faces, spatial
relations, and recognizing emotions
Cerebral Cortex - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Associated with higher order reasoning
ADHD & Frontal Lobes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Dysfunction within the frontal lobes.
Hippocampus - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Important for forming memories because of its role in
associating emotions with events
Four (4) major lobes of the brain that play a role in processing information & regulating behavior -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1) Frontal Lobe-executive functioning, helps with planning future actions &
regulate behavior 2) Parietal Lobe-helps to assimilate body sensation, develop symbolic association &
math skills 3) Temporal Lobe-processing auditory information & implicated in reading problems
4)Occipital Lobe-Responsible for processing visual information
Self-dialogue (self-talk) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Cognitive approach to change behavior. Vital to
understanding what a student is saying before, during, and after a undesirable act. Change self-talk can
change behaviors
Responce Cost - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Response cost or negative punishment is another way to
make behavior less frequent. It is therefore a form of punishment. It occurs when a stimulus is taken
away as a consequence of behavior and the effect is to reduce the frequency of the behavior.
