FINAL- Week 4 Part 3 Flashcards
Time needed to process info on a wide variety of cognitive declines rapidly between what ages?
Ages 6-12
True or false:
Children handle increasingly difficult tasks that require the integration of working memory, inhibition, planning, flexible use of strategies, self monitoring and self correction of behavior
True
True or false:
Children b/n ages 6 and 10 are better able to filter irrelevant stimuli and attend to central elements
True
True or false:
Memory strategies does not improve as attention improves
False
MEMORY AND ATTENTION IMPROVES
True or false:
School aged children demonstrate improved ability to reflect in their own mental life and make mental inferences
True
What does the process of cognitive self- regulation involve?
- continuously monitoring progress toward a goal
- checking outcomes
- redirection unsuccessful efforts
How can parents and teachers foster self regulation?
- Pointing out important features of a task
- Suggesting strategies and explaining their effectiveness
What is the whole language approach to learn how to read?
Children are exposed to text in complete form from the beginning
Promotes appreciation of communicative functions of written language
What is the phonics approach to learn how to read?
Children are first coached in rules for translating written symbols into sounds
Complex reading material is introduced only after mastering these skills
What do virtually all intelligence tests represent?
General intelligence or reasoning ability, along with an array of separate measuring specific mental abilities
How can IQ tests be administered?
In groups or individually
What does the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale (5th edition) measure?
General knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, working memory and basic info processing
What does the wechsler intelligence scale for children-IV measure?
Verbal reasoning, perceptual reasoning, working memory and processing speed
True or false:
Individuals who is nervous systems function more efficiently, permitting them to take in info and manipulate it quickly, appear to have an edge in intellectual skills
True
What are the 3 broad interacting intelligence?
1) analytical intelligence
2) creative intelligence
3) practical intelligence
How does Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences defines intelligence?
Distinct set of processing operations that permit Individuals to engage in a wide range of culturally valued activities
What affects IQ?
Genetics
Environment
SES
Culture
How many words a day do children in middle childhood learn?
20
How old are children when they add orienting info (time, place, participants) and connectives (next, then, so, finally) that lend to coherence in their story?
6 and 7 years old
Traditional or constructivist classroom:
Teacher is sole authority for knowledge, rules and decision making
Student are passive- they listen and complete tasks
Progress is evaluated by how well they keep pace with a uniform sty is standards in their grade
Traditional classroom
Traditional or constructivist classroom:m
Teacher encourages student to co struts their own knowledge
Children are active agents that reflect on and coordinate their own thoughts rather than absorbing those of others
Constructivist classroom
What are inclusive classrooms?
Students with learning disabilities learn alongside typical student win the regular educational setting for all or part of the day
What IQ scores are considered gifted?
Above 130
