Chapter 5 - Age Groups Flashcards
Adjusting to a new experience by abandoning an old plan or revising it to fit the new information
Accommodation
This domain focuses on social, emotional, and personality development.
Affective domain
A progressive disease that leaves a person unable to form new memories and is marked by loss of other mental functions, such as the ability to recall newly learned information and disorientation.
Alzheimer’s Disease
The study of core adult learning principles that apply to all adult learning situations.
Andragogy
Taking new information and fitting it into a preconceived notion about objects or the world.
Assimilation
This domain focuses on the mind, how it works, and the ability to think and reason.
Cognitive Domain
Irreversible deterioration of intellectual ability accompanied by emotional disturbance.
Dementia
Physical skills involving complex coordination and smaller muscles called upon for activities such as writing, drawing, and technical manipulations.
Fine motor skills
The study of the social, physical, and biological aspects of aging.
Gerontology
The name of a group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve, often causing a loss of peripheral vision.
Glaucoma
Physical skills involving primarily the large muscle groups needed for activities such as running, jumping, and climbing.
Gross Motor Skills
A medical condition in which the center of the inner lining of the eye atrophied or thins, often resulting in a loss of central vision.
Macular Degeneration
Words that sound like the noises objects make.
Onomatopoeia
The domain that focuses on physical development.
Physical Domain
A portion of the brain located directly behind the forehead in a region often to as the frontal lobe.
Prefrontal Cortex
A teaching method invented by the Greek philosopher Socrates in which the leader or group member poses a question or dilemma and the group members pool their thoughts and experiences to see an answer or solution.
Socratic Dialogue
A situation during which the learning is particularly responsive to being taught or made aware of something.
Teachable moment
Features that resemble those in other homes but that are designed to be easier to use and are adaptable to changing physical needs.
Universal Design.
The gap between what a child has already mastered and what he or she can achieve with the guidance of an experienced and capable assistant such as a teacher or peer at an appropriate level of readiness.
Zone of proximal development
What is the role of an educator when teaching adults?
Facilitator
______________, using words that sound like the noises objects make, is a fun and creative way to enhance presentation for very young children.
Onomatopoeia
Which type of printed material is easiest for older adults to read?
Black Letters on white paper.
Which of the following domains of development focuses on social, emotional, and personality development?
Affective
Which can be used as guidelines for instruction to facilitate better learning among children and adults?
Age group characteristics
When a child takes in new information and fits it into a preconceived notion about objects or the world, this is called?
Assimilation
The _________ always drive(s) the lesson.
Objectives
Which of the following terms is the study of the social, psychological, and biological aspects of aging?
Gerontology
Which of the following terms is the study of core adult learning principals that apply to all adult learning situations?
Andragogy
Teaching to the appropriate level of readiness is something referred to as the:
Zone of Proximal Development
The fire life and safety educator can recommend older adults to consider the use of grip bars, nonslip area rugs, and night lights, and encourage the adoption of _________ design, homes that look like other homes but are easier to access.
Universal
Which of the following domains of development focuses on physical development?
Physical
Which distracter to learning refers to the social or emotional status of the audience?
Climate
What technique is used when the leader or a group members poses a question or dilemma, and the group members pool their thoughts and experience to see an answer or solution?
Socratic Dialogue
A typical preschooler can attend to a lesson for approximately:
10-15 minutes
In which age group does grasp of space, time, and abstract concepts deepen and allow for more in-depth examination and discussion of complex issues, including politics, religion, morality, and ethics?
Adolescents
When a child adjusts to a new experience by changing his or her existing conception in order to interpret the experience correctly, this is called:
Accommodation
Young children are very curious and eager to learn, and they do so through ___________, reinforcement, active involvement, and praise.
Repetition.
What is the maximum number of concepts per lesson when etching preschoolers?
3.
Which of the following domains of development focuses on the mind, how it works, and the ability to think and reason?
Cognitive
