Lesson 5 Flashcards
What is considered obese?
20% or more above the ideal body weight or BMI
Another name for short-term memory
Working memory
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. What age is this test designed for?
6-16
A document specifying education goals for a child with special needs.
Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
In 1975 congress passed public law 94-142 that required what?
Provide children with special needs the opportunity for a full education in the “least restrictive environment”
IQ between 50-70
Mild intellectual disability
IQ between 35-55
Moderate intellectual disability
IQ from 20-40
Severe intellectual disability
IQ below 25
Profound intellectual disability
Which Psychologist contended that boys and girls view morality differently? Boys from a perspective of justice and fairness, and girls form a relational responsibility perspective.
Carol Gilligan
Approximate what % of American children are obese?
One third
A serious psychological disorder, associated with criminal behavior and substance abuse, in which one demonstrates a lack of conscience.
Antisocial personality disorder.
The ability to understand that somethings do not change, even if their appearance is altered.
Conservation
The ability to sort through possibilities to arrive at the 1 best answer.
Convergent thinking
A process where parents begging to transfer some control over decision making to their children.
Co-regulation
Producing multiple alternative solutions to one problem.
Divergent thinking
Knowing about one’s own memory.
Meta-memory
A cognitive structure that serves to organize related information.
Schema
A persons weight in kg. divided by the square of height in meters.
BMI
Child having BMI over 85%
Overweight
A process in which repetition of a sequence of thoughts makes the sequence routine, so that it no longer requires conscious thought.
Automatization
The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over decades in many nations.
The Flynn effect
An educational strategy intended to help children in early grades, who demonstrate below-average achievement, by means of special intervention.
Response to intervention (RTI)
The ability to figure out the unspoken link between one fact and another.
Transitive inference
The component of the information processing system in which incoming stimulus information is stored for a split second to allow it to be processed. Also called the sensory register.
Sensory memory
The component of the information processing system in which current conscious mental activity occurs. (Formerly called short-term memory)
Working memory
The practical use of language that includes the ability to adjust language communication according to audience and context.
pragmatics
Inaugurated in 2001, a planned 5-year cycle of international trend studies in the reading ability of 4th graders.
Progress in international reading literacy study (PIRLS)
An international assessment of the math and science skills of 4th and 8th graders.
Trends in Math & Science study (TIMSS)
An ongoing national assessment of US children’s achievement in Math, reading, and other subjects over time; nicknamed “the nation’s report card”
National Assessment of Educational Progress
NAEP
Rejected by peers because of antagonistic, confrontational behavior.
Aggressive rejected
