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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Suggests that behavior is somewhat controlled by association and illustrated after a neutral stimulus accepts the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through the pairing of some unconditioned stimulus with the neutral stimulus.






2. Events are formed by human perceptions of places and regions - events of past provide insights into climate - resources - ecosystems - and migration of humans - why certain events happened a certain way






3. Motivation is the primary determinant of L2 proficiency;The more motivated you are the better you will perform






4. Language Acquisition hypothesis






5. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts






6. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






7. Math word problems






8. Amount of force a muscle can produce






9. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






10. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency


11. Models or visual examples of the information






12. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






13. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass






14. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






15. Spatial awareness - effort - and peer relationships developed through movement concepts and skill themes






16. The reader at the beginning stages of learning to read and developing an association of print with meaning. During this stage of reading development - children engage in reading play and retelling familiar stories from memory and using pictures to ma






17. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






18. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions






19. Context reduced






20. Operant conditioning






21. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments






22. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






23. Stages of the ethic of care






24. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






25. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education






26. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






27. Used prior to occurence of inappropriate behavior - use positive interaction - elimiate differential treatment - and prompting






28. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






29. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






30. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction






31. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






32. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.






33. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .






34. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing






35. Proficiency of the academic Language






36. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






37. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive






38. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






39. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






40. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






41. Development of spoken language system






42. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






43. Construct understanding from the words






44. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum






45. Eight stages of human development






46. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph






47. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.


48. Stages of cognitive development






49. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






50. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words