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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
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1. Refers to substantial limitations in present functioning manifests before the age of 18.






2. Something that can have more than one value.






3. Experiment in which conditions are highly controlled.






4. (Cognitive) a developmental view of how moral reasoning evolves from a low to a high level. Argues that people with low moral level are unable to conceive acts of aggression as being immoral.

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5. Hearing ability is of little use - even with the use of a hearing aid = cannot use hearing as primary source for accessing information.






6. A close emotional relationship between two persons characterized by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity; attachments serve the purpose of keeping the child & primary caregiver physically and emotionally close






7. Goal is for the child to be successful in whatever she does - as success brings a positive sense of self/one's abilities. failure creates a negative self-image.






8. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow.






9. Mild form of autism; may have concomitant learning disabilities and/or poor motor skills.

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10. Assignments or activities designed to broaden or deepen the knowledge of students who master classroom lessons quickly.






11. An impairment in the ability to understand and/or use words in context - both verbally and nonverbally; improper use of words and their meanings - inability to express ideas - inappropriate grammatical patterns - reduced vocabulary and inability to f






12. Limited to presented options - common on standardized achievement tests






13. Teaching methods in which students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves.






14. Blurts out answers before questions have been completed - has difficulty awaiting turn - interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g. - butts into conversations or games)






15. General aptitude for learning - often measured by ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






16. The process of comparing one's self to others to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities.






17. Orientation for approaching learning tasks and processing information in certain ways.






18. Planning instruction by first setting long-range goals - then setting unit objectives - and finally planning daily lessons.






19. Another term for short-term memory.






20. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






21. Using favored activities to reinforce participation in less desired activities.






22. A problem-solving technique that encourages identifying the goal (ends) of a problem - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






23. Requires student to supply rather than to select the answer






24. A psychological movement - started in Germany - that advanced the understanding of perception.






25. The age of an individual in years.






26. During the period of life between 11 and 12 years of age and onward during which - Piaget believed - children begin to apply formal rules of logic and to gain the ability to think abstractly and reflectively; thinking shifts from the real to the poss






27. Having students listen for specific information.






28. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation.






29. Right is defined in terms of individual rights/standards that have been agreed upon by society. Laws are not 'frozen' but can be changed for society's good.






30. Set of standardized scores ranging from 1 to 99 - having a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of about 21.






31. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






32. One student teaching another.






33. A measure of the consistency of test scores obtained from the same students at different times.






34. Learning Environment High structure - high levels of time on task.






35. Increased ability to learn new information due to previously acquired information.






36. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






37. A type of standardized score ranging from 1 to 9 - having a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.






38. A form of formal logic achieved during the formal operational stage Piaget identified as the ability to generate and test hypotheses in a logical and systematic matter.






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






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






41. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






42. Developed an early version of finger spelling for individuals who were deaf






43. Study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






44. The goals students must reach to be considered proficient in a skill.






45. A teacher or school can make one backup copy of






46. Lack of relationship between two variables.






47. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to real-life situations.






48. Removing a student from a situation in which misbehavior was reinforced.






49. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






50. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention.