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02/05/2012

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Phonics Approach
Definition
Teaching reading by first leaching the sounds of each letter and of various letter combinations.
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Whole-Language apprach
Definition
Teaching reading by encouraging early use of all language skills--talking and listening, reading and writing.t
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Charter School
Definition
A public school with its own set of standards that is funded and licensed by the state or local district in which it is loctaed
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Voucher
Definition
Persmission for a parents to choose the school for the child, with some or all of the cost of that childs education borne by the local government. PArents who have vouchers for their childre often can choose a public or private school, although the specifics vary a great deal from one to another.
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Latency
Definition
Freuds term for middle childhood, during which children emotional drives and psycosexual needs are quiet (latent).
Freud thought that sexual conflicts from earlier stages are only temporarily submerged, bursting forth again at puberty
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Industry versus inferiority
Definition
the 4th of Eriksons 8 psychosocial crisises, during which children attempt to master many skills, developing a sense of themselves as either industrious or inferior, competent or incompetent.
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Socical Comparison
Definition
The tendency to assess ones abilites, achievements, social status, and other attributes by measuring them against those of other people, especiallly ones peers.
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Effortful Control
Definition
The ability to regulate ones emotions and actions through effort, not simple through natural inclination
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Resilience
Definition
The capacity to adapt well to significant adversity and to overcome serious stress
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Family Structure
Definition
The legal and genetic relationships among relatives living in the same home; includes nuclear family, extended family, stepfamily, and so on
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Family Function
Definition
The way a family works to meet the needs of its members. Children need familes to provide basic material necessities to encourage learning, to help them develop self-respect, to nurture friendships and to foster harmony and stability
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What do shcool age children Need?
Definition
Material necessities (food, clothes, sleep shelter)
Learning (Familes can support encourage and guide education)
Self Respect (Children become self critical and socially aware)
Peer Relationships (Families can welcome friendships)
Harmony and Stability (Families can provide protective, predictable routines)
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Nuclear Family
Definition
A Family that consists of a father, a mother and their biological children under 18
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Single Parent Family
Definition
A family that consists of only one parents and his or her biological children under 18
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Extended Family
Definition
a family of three or more generations living in one household
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Polygamous Family
Definition
a family consisting of one man, several wives and the biological children of the man and his wives.
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Two factors that interfere with family function
Definition
Low income and High conflict
Example: 6 year old spilling milk from "everyone has accidents" vs "We dont have enough money for you to spill milk"
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Culture of Children
Definition
The particular habits styles and values that reflect the set of rules and rituals that characterize children as distinct from adult socirty
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Agressive-rejected
Definition
rejected by peers because of antagonistic, confrontational behavior
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Withdrawn-rejected
Definition
rejected by peers because of timid, withdrawn, and anxious behavior
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Social Cognition
Definition
The ability to understand social interactions, including the causes and consequences of human behavior
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Bullying
Definition
repeated, systematic efforts to inflict harm through physical, verbal, or social attack on a weaker person.
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Bully-Victims
Definition
Someone who attacks others and who is attacked as well.
(Do things that elicit bullying like stealing a bullys pencil)
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How bullying can be stopped
Definition
everyone in the school must change, not just the bullies
Intervention is more ffective in earlier grades
Evaluation is critical. Programs that appear to be good might actually be harmful
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Forces that drive childrens growing interest in moral issues
Definition
1. Peer culture, which judges some behaviors as fair and others not.
2.Personal Experience. Both of these typically give shcool children greater exposure to more diverse people and ideas.
3.Empathy, stronger in middle childhood because children are more aware of one another.
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Preconventional Moral Reasoning
Definition
Kohlbergs first level of moral reasoning, emphasizing rewards and punishments (children seeking their personal pleasure or pain more than social concerns)
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Conventional Moral Reasoning
Definition
Kohlbergs 2nd level of moral reasoning, emphasizeing social rules. (Children see what their parents, their teachers, and their friends do and try to follow suit)
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Postconventional Moral Reasoning
Definition
Kohlbergs 3rd level of moral reasoning, emphasizing moral principles. (Uses logic and abstractions, going beyond what is concretely observed in a particular society, willing to question "what is" in order to decide "what should be")
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What do children use to justify their moral actions?
Definition
They use their intellectual abilites
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Common Values among 6-11 year olds
Definition
1.Protect your friends
2. Dont tell adults what is happening
3. Dont be too different from your peers.
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Adolescent Egocentrism
Definition
a characteristic of adolescent thinking that leads young people (10-13) to focus on themselves to the exclustion of others.
(leads adolescents to interpret everyone elses behavior as if it were a judgment on them)
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Personal Fable
Definition
an aspect of adolescent egocentrism characterized by an adolescents belief that his or her thoughts feelings, and experiences are unique, more wonderful or awful than anyone elses.
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Invincibilty Fable
Definition
An adolescents egocentric conviction that he or she cannot be overcome or even harmed by anything that might defeat a normal mortal, such as unprotected sex, drug abuse, or high speed driving.
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Imaginary Audience
Definition
The other people who, in an adolescents egocentric belief, are watching and taking note of his or her appearance, ideas, and behavior. This belief makes many teens very self conscious.
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Formal operational Thought
Definition
In piagets theory the 4th and final stage of cognitive development characterized by more systematic logical thinking and by the ability to understand and systematically manipulate abstract concepts
(children balance a scale by hooking weights on the scales arms)
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Hypothetical Thought
Definition
Reasoning that includes propsistions and possibilites that may not reflect reality
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Deductive Reasoning
Definition
Reasoning from a general statement, abstract idea, premise, or principle, through logical steps to figure out specifics.
(Top Down)
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Inductive Reasoning
Definition
Reasoning from one or more specific experiences or facts to reach a general conclusion. (children accumlatin facts and personal experiences to aid their thought)
(bottom Up)
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Dual-Process Model
Definition
The notion that two netowrks exist within the human brain, one for emotional and one for analytical processing of stimuli
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Intuitive Thought
Definition
thought that arises from an emotion or hunch, beyond rational explanations, and is influenced by past experiences and cultural assumptions
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Analytic Thought
Definition
Thought that results from analysis such as a systematic ranking of pros and cons, risks and consequences, possibilities and facts. Analytic thought depends on logic and rationality.
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Sunk Cost Fallacy
Definition
The mistaken belief that if money, time, or effort that cannot be recovered has already been invested in some endeavor, then more should be invested in an effort to reach the goal. Because of the fallacy, people spend money trying to fix a "lemon" of a car or send more troops to fight a losing battle.
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Base Rate Neglect
Definition
A common fallacy in which a person ignores the overall frequency of some behavior or characteristic in making decision. For example, a person might bet on a "lucky" lottery number without considering the odds that number will be selected
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Secondary Education
Definition
Literally, the period after primary education and before tertiary education (college). It usually occurs from about age 12-18, although there is some variation by school and by nation
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Middle School
Definition
A school for children in the grades between elementry and highschool. Middle School usually begins with grade 6th and ends at 8th
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Cyberbullying
Definition
Bullying that occurs when one person spreads insults or rumors about another by means of emails, text messages, or cell phone videos
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Cutting
Definition
An addictive form of self-mutilation that is most prevalent among adolescent girls and that correlates with depression and drug abuse.
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High-Stakes Test
Definition
an evaluation that is critical in determining success or failure. If a single test determines whether a student will graduate or be promoted its a high stakes test
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PISA (Programme for international student assessment)
Definition
an international test taken by 15 year olds in 50 nations that is designed to measure problem solving and cognition in daily life
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Identity vs Role Confusion
Definition
Eriksons term for the 5th stages of development, in which the person tries to figure out "who an I?" but is confused as to which of many possible roles to adopt.
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Identity Achievement
Definition
Eriksons term for the attainment of identity, or the point at which a person understand who he or she is as a unique individual, in accord with past experiences and future plans
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Role Confusion
Definition
A situation in which an adolescent does not seem to know or care what his or her identity is
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Foreclosure
Definition
Eriksons term for premature identity formation, which occurs when an adolescent adopts parents or societys roles and values wholesale, without questioning or analysis
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Moratorium
Definition
an adolescents choice of a socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions. Going to college is a common example
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Religous Identity
Definition
Past parental practices influence adolescent religious identity.
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Political Identity
Definition
Most adolescents follow the political traditions of their parents
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Vocational Identity
Definition
Envisioning oneself as a worker in a particular occupation based on parents roles
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Gender/Sexual Identity
Definition
a persons self-definition as male or female. Starts with a persons biological sex and leads to asuption of gender role, behavior that society considers appropriate for that gender.
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Bickering
Definition
Petty, peevish arguing. Usually repeated and ongoing
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Family closeness (4 aspects)
Definition
1.Communication (do family members talk openly with one another?
2. Support (do they rely on one another?)
3.Connectedness (how emotionally close are they?)
4. Control (do parents encourage or limit adolescent autonomy?)
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Parental Monitoring
Definition
Parents ongoing awareness of what their children are doing, where, and with whom.
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Peer Pressure
Definition
Encouragement to conform to ones friends or contemporaries in behavior, dress, and attitude; usually considered a negative force, as when adolescent peers encourage one another to defy adult authority
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Clique
Definition
A group of adolescents made up of close friends who are loyal to one another while excluding outsiders
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Crowd
Definition
A larger group of adolescents who have something in common but who are not necessarily friends
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Deviancy Training
Definition
Destructive peer support in which one person shows another how to rebel against authority or social norms
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4 stages of romance
Definition
1. group of friends, exclusively one sex or the other
2. A loose association of girls and boys, with public interations within a crowd
3. small-mixed sex groups of the advanced members of the crowd
4.Formation of couples with private intimacies
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Sexual Orientation
Definition
a term that refers to whether a person is sexually and romantically, attracted to others of the same sex, the opposite sex or both sexes.
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Clinical Depression
Definition
Feelings of hopelessness, lethargy, and worthlessness that last two weeks or more
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Rumination
Definition
Repeatedly thinking and talking about past experiences; can contribute to depression.
(mentally replaying past experiences, usually unpleasant)
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Suicidal Ideation
Definition
thinking about suicide usually with some serious emotional and intellectual or cognitive overtones.
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Parasuicide
Definition
Any potentially lethal action against the self that does not result in death (cutting/selfharm)
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Cluster Suicides
Definition
Several suicides commited by members of a group within a breif period of time
"Honor student kills self"
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Life-course persistent Offender
Definition
A person whose criminal activity typically begins in early adolescence and continues throughout life.
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Adolescence- Limited Offender
Definition
a person whose criminal activity stops by age 21
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Generational Forgetting
Definition
The idea that each new generation forgets what previous generation learned. As used here, the term refers to knowledge about the harm drugs can do
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Concrete Operational Thought
Definition
Pigets term for the ability to reason logically about direct experiences and perceptions
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Classification
Definition
the logical principle that things can be organized into groups for categories or classes or according to some characteristic they have in common
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Transitive Inference
Definition
The ability to figure out the unspoken link between one fact and another
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Sensory Memory
Definition
The component of the information-processing system in which incoming stimulus information is tored for a split second to allow it to be processed
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Working Memory
Definition
The component of the information-processing system in which current conscious mental activity occurs.
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Long Term Memory
Definition
The component of the information-processing system in which virtually limitless amounts of information can be stored indefinietly
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Knowledge Base
Definition
A body of knowledge in a particular area that makes it easier to master new information in that area
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Control Processes
Definition
Mechanisms that combine memory, processing speec, and knowledge to regulate the analysis and flow of information within the information-processing system
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Metacognition
Definition
"Thinking about Thinking" or the ability to evaluate a cognitive task in order to determine how best to accomplish it and then to monitor and adjust ones performance on that task
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Pragmatics
Definition
The practical use of language that includes the ability to adjust language communication according to audience and context
(A kid talking to a friend vs a teacher)
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Hidden Curriculum
Definition
The unofficial, unstated, or implicit rules and priorities that influence the academic curriculum and every other aspect of learning in a school.
(Students in gifted classes get the message they are more capable of learning and by implication, that less is expected of the other students)
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Progess in international Reading Literacy Study
Definition
Inaugurated in 2001, a planned 5 year cycle of international trend studies in the reading ability of 4th graders
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Trends in Math and Science Study
Definition
International assessment of the math and science skills of f4th-8th graders.
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No Child Left Behind Act
Definition
A US law enacted in 2001 that was intended to increase accountability in education by requiring states to qualify for federal educational funding by administering standardized tests to measure school achievement.
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National Assessment of Education Progress
Definition
an ongoing and nationally representative measure of US childrens achievement in readin, math, and other subjects over time. "The nations report card"
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Phonics Approach
Definition
Teaching reading by first teaching the sounds of each letter and of various letter combinations
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Whole-Language Approach
Definition
Teaching reading by encouraging early use of all language skills. Talking, listening, reading and writing.
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Charter Schools
Definition
A Public school with its own set of standards that is funded and licensed by the state or local district in which it is located
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Vouchers
Definition
Permission for a parent to choose the school for a child with some or all of the cost of that childs education borne by the local government. Parents who have vouchers for their children often can choose a public or private school
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Middle Childhood
Definition
The period between early childhood and early adolesence. Age 6-11
(Healthiest period of life because of great amount of vaccines given at this age)
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Health Habits
Definition
Children are influenced by peers and many adults, thus, if people they know have good habits, they develop them as well
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Physical Activity
Definition
Pros: Better overal health, Less Obesity, Appreciation of cooperation and fair play, Improved problem solving abilites, REspect for teamates and opponents of different ethnicities.

Cons: Loss of self-esteem as a result of criticism from teamates or coaches, Injuries, Reinforcement of prejudices (against sex), Increased sress.
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BMI
Definition
A persons Weight in kilograms divided by the square if height in meters
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Overwieight
Definition
in a child, having a BMI above the 85th percentile.
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Obesity
Definition
in a child, having a BMI above the 95th percentile
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Obesity and Genetics
Definition
Some are genetically predisposed to having high portion of body fat. More than 200 genes affect weight influencing activity level, food preference, body type and metabolism
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Whats relevant in Obesity
Definition
Genes, Parents, and policies
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Asthma
Definition
A chronic disease of the respiratory system which inflammation narrows the airways from the nose and mouth to the lungs, causing difficulty in breathin.
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Hygiene Hyothesis
Definition
Contemporary children are overprotected (too hygenic) from viruses and bacteria, which means they do not get infections and disease that would strengthen their immune systems
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Reaction Time
Definition
The time it takes to respond to a stimulus, either physically or cognitively.
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Finger Math
Definition
Few Schools teach children to count with their fingers, and some teachers forbif it. yet concret operational children learn best when they begin with visible examples.
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Selective attention
Definition
the ability to concentrate on some stimuli while ignoring others
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Automatization
Definition
a process in which repetition of a sequence of thoughts and actions makes the sequence routine, so that it no longer requires conscious thought.
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Aptitude
Definition
The potential to master a specific skill or to learn a certain body of knowledge
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IQ test
Definition
A test that measure intellectual aptitude or ability to learn in school.
(mental age / chronological age x 100 = IQ )
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Acheivement Tests
Definition
a measure of mastery or proficency in reading, math, writing, science or some other subject
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Flynn Effect
Definition
The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations
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Multiple Intelligences
Definition
The idea that human intelligence is comprised of a varied set of abilities rather than a single, all-encompassing one.
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Types of Intelligence
Definition
1. Academic (Measure by IQ and achievment tests)
2. Creative (evidenced by imaginative endeavors)
3. Practical (seen in everyday problem solving)
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Howard Gardners 7 Intelligences
Definition
1. Linguistic
2. Logical
3. Mathematical
4. Musical
5. Spatial
6.Bodily-kinesthetic
7. interpersonal and intrapersonal understanding.
(each associated with a particular brain region
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Developmental Psychopathology
Definition
the field that uses insights into typical development to understand and remediate developmental disorders, and vice versa.
Term
4 Principles of Developmental Psychopathology
Definition
1. Abnormality is normal
2. Disability changes year by year
3. Life may be better or worse in adulthood (Blindness vs bi-polar disorder)
diagnosis and treatment reflect the social context (social surrounding may modify or worsen indivdual
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Comorbid
Definition
refers to the presence of two or more unrelated conditions at the same time in the same person
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AD/HD
Definition
a condition in which a person not only has great difficulty concentrating for more than a few moments but also is inattentive, impulsive, and overactive
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Bipolar Disorder
Definition
A condition characterized by extreme mood swings from quphoria to deep depression, not caused by outside experiences.
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Learning Disabilites
Definition
a marked delay in a particular area of learning that is not caused by an apparents physical disability, by mental retardation, or by an unusually stressful home enviroment
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Dyslexia
Definition
Unsual difficulty with reading; thought to be the result of some neurological underdevelopment.
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Autism
Definition
a developmental disorder marked by an inability to relate to other people normally, extreme self-absorption, and an inability to acquire normal speech.
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Autistic spectrum Disorder
Definition
Any several disorders characterized by inadequate social skills, impaired communication, and unusual play.
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Least restrictive enviroment
Definition
Legal requirment that children with special needs be assigned to the most general educational context in which that can be expected to learn
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Response to intervention
Definition
an educational strategy intended to help children in early grades who demonstrate below average achievement by means of special intervention.
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Individual Education Plane IEP
Definition
a document that specifices educational goals and plans for a child with special needs
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