Lesson 5

Question 1

What is considered obese?

Answer 1

20% or more above the ideal body weight or BMI

Question 2

Another name for short-term memory

Answer 2

Working memory

Question 3

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. What age is this test designed for?

Answer 3

6-16

Question 4

A document specifying education goals for a child with special needs.

Answer 4

Individualized Education Plan (IEP)

Question 5

In 1975 congress passed public law 94-142 that required what?

Answer 5

Provide children with special needs the opportunity for a full education in the “least restrictive environment”

Question 6

IQ between 50-70

Answer 6

Mild intellectual disability

Question 7

IQ between 35-55

Answer 7

Moderate intellectual disability

Question 8

IQ from 20-40

Answer 8

Severe intellectual disability

Question 9

IQ below 25

Answer 9

Profound intellectual disability

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

Carol Gilligan

Question 11

Approximate what % of American children are obese?

Answer 11

One third

Question 12

A serious psychological disorder, associated with criminal behavior and substance abuse, in which one demonstrates a lack of conscience.

Answer 12

Antisocial personality disorder.

Question 13

The ability to understand that somethings do not change, even if their appearance is altered.

Answer 13

Conservation

Question 14

The ability to sort through possibilities to arrive at the 1 best answer.

Answer 14

Convergent thinking

Question 15

A process where parents begging to transfer some control over decision making to their children.

Answer 15

Co-regulation

Question 16

Producing multiple alternative solutions to one problem.

Answer 16

Divergent thinking

Question 17

Knowing about one’s own memory.

Answer 17

Meta-memory

Question 18

A cognitive structure that serves to organize related information.

Answer 18

Schema

Question 19

A persons weight in kg. divided by the square of height in meters.

Answer 19

BMI

Question 20

Child having BMI over 85%

Answer 20

Overweight

Question 21

A process in which repetition of a sequence of thoughts makes the sequence routine, so that it no longer requires conscious thought.

Answer 21

Automatization

Question 22

The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over decades in many nations.

Answer 22

The Flynn effect

Question 23

An educational strategy intended to help children in early grades, who demonstrate below-average achievement, by means of special intervention.

Answer 23

Response to intervention (RTI)

Question 24

The ability to figure out the unspoken link between one fact and another.

Answer 24

Transitive inference

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

Sensory memory

Question 26

The component of the information processing system in which current conscious mental activity occurs. (Formerly called short-term memory)

Answer 26

Working memory

Question 27

The practical use of language that includes the ability to adjust language communication according to audience and context.

Answer 27

pragmatics

Question 28

Inaugurated in 2001, a planned 5-year cycle of international trend studies in the reading ability of 4th graders.

Answer 28

Progress in international reading literacy study (PIRLS)

Question 29

An international assessment of the math and science skills of 4th and 8th graders.

Answer 29

Trends in Math & Science study (TIMSS)

Question 30

An ongoing national assessment of US children's achievement in Math, reading, and other subjects over time; nicknamed "the nation's report card"

Answer 30

National Assessment of Educational Progress | NAEP

Question 31

Rejected by peers because of antagonistic, confrontational behavior.

Answer 31

Aggressive rejected