Psych 32 Chap 7

During elementary school years children grow anually at this pace

The average height of Boys and Girls at age 11

What is the percentage of children in the United Sates whom are at risk of being overweight

What is the second leading cause of death for U.S. children 5 to 14 years of age?

What is the most common form of cancer found in U.S. children

What percentage of children in the U.s. ages 3 to 21 recive special education?

Someone who has difficulty learning that involves understanding or using spoken language

Individuals whom have a severe impairment in their ability to read and spell

A learning disability that involves difficulty in handwritting

A learning disability that involves difficulty in math computation

A disability characterized by inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsivity

ADHD

What is the ration for Boys and Girls with a Learning Disability

What is the ration for Boys and Girls diagnosed with ADHD?

ASD

A disorder characterized by problems in social interactions, problems in verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behavior

What are the 2 types of Autism Spectrum Disorders

A severe disoreder which onset is in the firt 3 years of life and includes deficiencies in social relationships, abnormalities in communication, and restricted, repetitive and sterotyped pattern of behavior

A relatively mild ASD in which the child has relatively good verbal language, milder nonverbal language problems and a restricted of interest in relationships

A law which was estabished in 1975 which made education for all handicapped children to be a requirement

In 1990 the Public Law 94-142 was renamed to this

IDEA

A written statement that spells out a program that is specifically tailored for a student with a disbaility

IEP

A setting that is as similar as possible to the one in whcih children who do not have a diability are educated. This gives provision for children with disabiities to be educated in a regular classroom

The educating of a child with special education needs full-time in the regular classroom

Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory

A stage in Piaget's theory that last from 7 to 11 years of age in which children can perform task to concrete objects and reason logically

The abiity to order stimuli along a quantitative dimension (such as length) ex - Placing sticks from short to tall order

The ability to logically combine relations to understand certain conclusions. Ex - If Stick A is longest, Stick B is medim and Stick C is shortest..The chid is able to conclude that Stick A is longer that Sick C without actually measuring it

The effective flexibility to control a number of areas including attention, reducing interfering thoughts, inhibiting motor actions and flexibility in switching between competing choices

People that believe that Piaget got some things right but his theory needs serious revision

Deliberate mental activities to improve the process of information

Manipulating and transforming information in memory

Thinking reflectively and productively, and evaluating evidence

The ability to think in novel and unusual ways and to come up with unique solutions to problems

Ability to produce one correct answer and characterizes the kind of thinking that is required on conventional tests of intelligence

The ability to produce many different answers to the same questions and characterizes creativity

A congition about cognition, or knowing about knowing. Focuses on knowledge about memory, ability to recall tes

The ability to solve problems and to adapt and learn from experiences

An individual's level of mental development releative to others

A person's mental age divided by chronological age mutliplied by 100

A majority of the scores falling in the middle of the possible range of scores and few scores appearing toward the extremem of range

Sternberg's Triarchic Theory

Stable consistent ways in which people are different from each other

Gardner's Eight Frames of Minds

The ability to think in words and use language to express meaning. Occupations: Authors, journalists, speakers

The ability to think three-dimensionally. Occupations: Architects, Artist

The ability to carry out mathematical operations. Occupations: Scientist, engineers, accountants

The ability to manipulate objects and be physically adept. Occuption: Surgeons, craft-people, athletes

A sensitivity to pitch, melody, rhtym and tone. Occupation: Musician, Composers

The ability to understand and interact effectively with others. Occupation: Successful teachers, mental health professionals

The ability to understand oneself. Occupations: Theologians, psychologists

The ability to obeserve patterns in nature and understand natural and human-made systems. Occupations: Farmers, botanists, ecologist, landscapers

The worldwide increase in intelligence test scores that has occured in a short period of time

Test of intelligence that are intended to be free of cultural bias

A condition in which an individual is limited in maental ability and has an IQ lower than 70

A mental retardation that is caused by a genetic disorder or by brain damage. Usually have IQ's between 0-50

A mental deficit in which no evidence of biological brain damage can be found. Usually have an IQ of 50-70

Above average Intelligence. IQ of 130 or higher

The ability that gifted children have to master an area earlier thatn their peers

knowledge about a language, such as knowing what a preposition is or the ability to discuss the sounds of language

A method used for teaching children to read by recognizing words as whole pieces of language

A method which empasized that reading instructions should teach basic rules for translating written symbols into sounds