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life span dev psych. ch 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What a child has already learned and mastered. | achievement |
| The potential to learn, or master, a particular skill or body of knowledge. | aptitude |
| Education in which the teacher teaches in both English and the students’ native language. | bilingual education |
| A measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to both adult men and women | body mass index (BMI) |
| People's ability to sort objects according to the attributes they share, place things in a sensible and logical order, and hold a concept in their minds while make a decision about the concept | classification |
| The period of cognitive development between 7 and 12 years of age characterized by the active appropriate use of logic. | concrete operational stage |
| Exposure of the student to intense English language skill development with a goal of mastering English basics within approximately 6 months. | English as a second language (ESL) |
| A legally required document specifying a series of educational goals for a child with special needs. | individual education plan (IEP) |
| Aptitude tests designed to measure a person’s ability to learn. | IQ tests |
| The setting that is most similar to that of children without special needs. | least restrictive environment |
| Helps organize ideas and formulate reactions to events. Two important dimensions of long-term memory are storage and retrieval. | long-term memory |
| The ability to “think about thinking.” This process allows children to evaluate a cognitive task and determine how best to accomplish it. | metacognition |
| Body weight that is 20 percent or more above the weight that is considered ideal for the person’s age and height (i.e. a BMI of 30 or more). | obesity |
| Body weight that is up to 20 percent above the average for a person of a given height and weight ( i.e., a BMI between 25.5 and 29.9). | overweight |
| The period of approximately 2 years that begins at the end of middle childhood and ends with the thirteenth birthday. | preadolescence |
| The development of secondary sex characteristics that occurs two years immediately before puberty when the child is developing initial physical changes that herald sexual maturity. | prepubescence |
| The period of growth and hormonal changes that occur when sexual organs mature and the secondary sex characteristics develop, beginning earlier for girls than for boys. | puberty |
| The principle that two things may change in opposite ways in order to balance each other out (also known as inversion). | reciprocity |
| The logical principle that sometimes a thing can be returned to its original state by reversing the process by which it was changed (e.g. freezing water; melting ice). | reversibility |
| Refers to the person’s overall and specific positive and negative self-evaluation. | self-esteem |
| Refers to the child’s tendency to evaluate his/her own behavior, abilities, expertise, and opinions by comparing them to those of others. | social comparison |
| An IQ test designed specifically for school age children. The test assesses many abilities including vocabulary, general knowledge, memory, and spatial comprehension. | Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-IV) |
| Short term memory that helps people understand current information, and relate it to previous learned information. | working memory |
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