School Psych
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100

This professional organization represents school psychologists in the United States.

What is NASP (National Association of School Psychologists)?

100

This orange fruit, carved into Jack-o'Lanterns, is technically classified as a type of squash. 

What is a pumpkin?

100

This is the largest country in the world by land area.

What is Russia?

100
This type of fear, often triggered by spiders, is one of the most common specific phobias.

What is arachnophobia?

100

The consistency of test scores over time refers to this psychometric property.

What is reliability?

200

A formal plan for how a school will remove barriers so a student with a disability can learn alongside peers in general education. DOES NOT INCLUDE SPECIALLY DESIGNED INSTRUCTION.

What is a 504 Plan?

200

This work, derived from "hallowed evening," refers to the night before All Saints' Day. 

What is Halloween?
200

The main character in The Great Gatsby is known by this first name. 

Who is Jay?

200

This part of the brain is most associated with fear responses.

What is the amygdala?

200

Dyscalculia is related to this area of academics. 

What is math?

300

This type of assessment measures a student's current level of performance and progress over time, often used for RTI.

What is progress monitoring (or curriculum-based measurement)?

300

In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, this character is known as the original vampire count. 

What is Count Dracula? 

300

The director of Inception and Oppenheimer.

Who is Christopher Nolan?
300

The "fight or flight" response is primarily regulated by this part of the nervous system.

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

300

What therapeutic approach focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are intertwined?

What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?

400

This landmark Supreme Cout case in 1954 laid the groundwork for desegregation and equitable education.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

400
The superstition that a black cat crossing your path brings bad luck likely originated from fear of these individuals in the Middle Ages.

Who are witches?

400

The U.S Civil War ended in this year. 

What is 1865?

400

According to Freud, this part of the mind houses primitive desires and operates on the pleasure principle.

What is the id?

400
This theory emphasizes the interaction between a child and their multiple environmental systems. 
What is Brofenbrenner's ecological systems theory?
500

This 1975 federal law first guaranteed free and appropriate public education for children with disabilities.

What is Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act)?

500

The tradition of dressing in costumes on Halloween originated from this ancient Celtic festival. 

What is Samhain?

500
The double-helix structure of DNA was discovered by these two scientists in 1953.

Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?

500

In the Stanford Prison Experiment, participatns were assigned these two roles. 

What are guards and prisoners?

500
This concept means keeping student information private unless consent or safety exceptions apply.

What is confidentiality?