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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Adolescent establishes an identity in which clear decisions about occupations and ideologies have been consciously made






2. A behavior prompted automatically by stimuli.






3. A mental operation learned during the concrete operational stage that allows children to organize concepts and objects according to how they relate to one another in a building-block fashion. For example - all matter is composed of molecules and mole






4. Down syndrome - autism - developmental disability - schizophrenia - anxiety disorders - bipolar disorder (manic depression) - anorexia - post traumatic stress disorder - print disability - hearing impairment - physical disability






5. Assessments that compare the performance of one student against the performance of others.






6. Assessment Frequent objective and essay tests.






7. Condition - usually present at birth - that results in below-average intellectual skills and poor adaptive behavior.






8. The study of learning and teaching.






9. Technique in which facts or skills to be learned are repeated many times over a concentrated period of time.






10. Systematic application of antecedents and consequences to change behavior.






11. Fill-in-the-blank items on tests.






12. An apparatus developed by B. F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






13. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






14. The study of animal behavior with emphasis on the behavioral patterns that occur in natural environments; animals are born with a set of fixed action patterns such as imprinting






15. Eye contact - gestures - physical proximity - or touching used to communicate without interrupting verbal discourse.






16. Most girls begin their growth spurt by the start of 5th grade






17. A theory that relates the probability and incentive of success to motivation.






18. People who are equal in age or status.






19. A process that occurs when recall of certain information is inhibited by the presence of other information in memory.






20. Disorder in one or more basic psychological processes involved in understanding/using spoken and/or written language = imperfect ability to listen - think - read - write - spell - or do math calculations.






21. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






22. Tests that are usually commercially prepared for nationwide use to provide accurate and meaningful information on student's level of performance relative to others at their age or grade levels.






23. A pattern of attributing events to factors outside one's control; a characteristic of children with learning disabilities; see locus of causality.






24. Wanted public funding in 1840s for Catholic schools. Helped the secularization of American public schools.






25. The period of life from birth to 2 years old when children acquire what Piaget believed are the building blocks of symbolic thinking and human intelligence-schemes for two basic competencies - goal-directed behavior and object permanence.






26. Piaget's term for patterns of behavior during the sensorimotor stage that are repeated over and over again as goal-directed actions.






27. Lack of relationship between two variables.






28. An undesirable characteristic of tests in which item content discriminates against certain students on the basis of socioeconomic status - race - ethnicity - or gender.






29. Behavior modification strategies in which a student1s school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






30. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior






31. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






32. Presence of sub-average general intellectual functioning associated with or resulting in impairments in adaptive behavior; occurs before age of 18






33. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular responce






34. A consequence that a person tries to avoid or escape






35. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive learning principles for changing your own behavior by using self-talk and self-instruction.






36. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






37. A teaching method based on the principles of question generation - in which metacognitive skills are taught through instruction and teacher modeling to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension.






38. Policy or practice of placing all students in regular classes with appropriate assistance.






39. Release from an unpleasant situation to strengthen behavior






40. Growth that occurs during these years usually proceeds from the extremities to the torso & may be uneven - the child's body grows much more slowly relative to other periods of life.






41. Having students listen for specific information.






42. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






43. 1978 Schools required to provide services and activities to meet the needs of students identified as being gifted/talented.






44. Demographics Culturally/Religiously homogenous - Puritan






45. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgments in their own interests.






46. One-to-one tutoring for reading; early elementary = phonetic reading strategies; teach learning-to-learn skills (study skills - test-taking skills - etc.); give frequent feedback; break down large projects into smaller chunks; effective classroom man






47. A part of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge.






48. Problems with the ability to receive information through the body1s senses.






49. Handicap






50. Students who are likely to be low-achieving or 3at risk2 for school failure.