EDCO 557 Final Flashcards
Intellectual Disability
Limited mental ability reflective of low IQ and difficulty adapting to everyday life
Individualized Education Plan
Written statement that is specifically tailored for the disabled student
Sociocultural Theorists
Lev Vygotsky
Psychoanalytic Theorists
Freud and Erickson
Father of Social Learning
Albert Bandura
Fine Motor Skills
Finely tuned movements like grasping a toy, using a spoon, buttoning a shirt, or anything that requires finger dexterity
Perseveration
The tendency to stick to a thought or action long after it is time to move on.
It occurs normally in young children, another aspect of immature self-control
Assimilation
Taking existing schemes and incorporating them into our existing information or experiences.
Ex. Referring to all fuzzy, four legged creatures as dogs.
Empathy
A person’s true understanding of the emotions of another, including the ability to figure out what would make the person feel better
Gross Motor Skills
Large-muscle movements like moving arms, crawling, walking
Father of Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
Father of Operant Conditioning
B.F. Skinner
Infantile Amnesia
The inability to remember anything that happens before the age of 2 or anything except very important events before the age of 5
Prefrontal Cortex
Assists in planning, self-control, self-regulation, analyzing, selecting responses, and coordinating messages
Independent Variable
The variable that is being manipulated
Scaffolding
Changing the level of support based on the child’s current performance level.
Accommodation
adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences
Ex. Recognizing cats are cats and dogs are dogs
Brain Lateralization
Specialization of function in one hemisphere or the other of the brain.
Left side of the brain controls the ride side of the body, and vice versa
Behavioral & Social Cognitive Theorists
Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and Albert Bandura
Bell Curve Graph
Dependent Variable
The results of the manipulation
Conservation
Altering a substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties
Achievement
A test of developed skill or knowledge.
The most common type of achievement test is a standardized test developed to measure skills and knowledge learned in a given grade level, usually through planned instruction, such as training or classroom instruction
Emotional Intelligence
An Understanding of how to interpret and express emotions.
Develops through life, particularly in early childhood
Experiment
Random assignment, one or more of the factors are manipulated while all other factors are held constant
Cognitive Theorists
Jean Piaget
Object Permanence
Understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched
Intelligent Quotient
A total score derived from one of several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence by testing reasoning ability.
Learning Disability
Difficulty in learning that involves understanding spoken or written language, listening, thinking, reading, writing, and spelling
Zone of Proximal Development
Range of tasks that are difficult for the child to do alone but that can be learned with guidance
Plasticity
Human characteristics can be molded into different forms and shapes, yet people maintain a certain durability
Source Memory
Recollection of the person who said or did something or the place where something occurred is difficult for children
