EDCO 557 Final

Question 1

Intellectual Disability

Answer 1

Limited mental ability reflective of low IQ and difficulty adapting to everyday life

Question 2

Individualized Education Plan

Answer 2

Written statement that is specifically tailored for the disabled student

Question 3

Sociocultural Theorists

Answer 3

Lev Vygotsky

Question 4

Psychoanalytic Theorists

Answer 4

Freud and Erickson

Question 5

Father of Social Learning

Answer 5

Albert Bandura

Question 6

Fine Motor Skills

Answer 6

Finely tuned movements like grasping a toy, using a spoon, buttoning a shirt, or anything that requires finger dexterity

Question 7

Perseveration

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Assimilation

Answer 8

Taking existing schemes and incorporating them into our existing information or experiences.

Ex. Referring to all fuzzy, four legged creatures as dogs.

Question 9

Empathy

Answer 9

A person’s true understanding of the emotions of another, including the ability to figure out what would make the person feel better

Question 10

Gross Motor Skills

Answer 10

Large-muscle movements like moving arms, crawling, walking

Question 11

Father of Classical Conditioning

Answer 11

Ivan Pavlov

Question 12

Father of Operant Conditioning

Answer 12

B.F. Skinner

Question 13

Infantile Amnesia

Answer 13

The inability to remember anything that happens before the age of 2 or anything except very important events before the age of 5

Question 14

Prefrontal Cortex

Answer 14

Assists in planning, self-control, self-regulation, analyzing, selecting responses, and coordinating messages

Question 15

Independent Variable

Answer 15

The variable that is being manipulated

Question 16

Scaffolding

Answer 16

Changing the level of support based on the child’s current performance level.

Question 17

Accommodation

Answer 17

adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences

Ex. Recognizing cats are cats and dogs are dogs

Question 18

Brain Lateralization

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Behavioral & Social Cognitive Theorists

Answer 19

Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and Albert Bandura

Question 20

Bell Curve Graph

Answer 20

Question 21

Dependent Variable

Answer 21

The results of the manipulation

Question 22

Conservation

Answer 22

Altering a substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties

Question 23

Achievement

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Emotional Intelligence

Answer 24

An Understanding of how to interpret and express emotions.

Develops through life, particularly in early childhood

Question 25

Experiment

Answer 25

Random assignment, one or more of the factors are manipulated while all other factors are held constant

Question 26

Cognitive Theorists

Answer 26

Jean Piaget

Question 27

Object Permanence

Answer 27

Understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched

Question 28

Intelligent Quotient

Answer 28

A total score derived from one of several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence by testing reasoning ability.

Question 29

Learning Disability

Answer 29

Difficulty in learning that involves understanding spoken or written language, listening, thinking, reading, writing, and spelling

Question 30

Zone of Proximal Development

Answer 30

Range of tasks that are difficult for the child to do alone but that can be learned with guidance

Question 31

Plasticity

Answer 31

Human characteristics can be molded into different forms and shapes, yet people maintain a certain durability

Question 32

Source Memory

Answer 32

Recollection of the person who said or did something or the place where something occurred is difficult for children