Arranging items along a quantitative dimension
Seriation
Tests that are consistent over time are _______.
What is Reliable?
Nine
Name a speech and language disorder
Aphasia - Loss of language
Articulation Disorder
Fluency Disorders
Voice Disorders
Theory of language development focused on social learning with MKP's or caregivers.
What is Vygotsky's Zone or Proximal Development
The Concrete Operational stage is chracterized by the development of ___________ and ____________ thinking.
Organized and Rational
Marks the beginning of logical/operational thought
Explain what the Standardization of test means...
The standardization of a test involves giving it to a large number of people at different ages and computing the average score on the test at each age level
Which intelligence best fits the following scenario:
Joaquin is great at soccer and most sports. He is very coordinated. He also loves to dance.
Kinesthetic Intelligence
6 Major Branches of Linguistics
phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Noah Chomsky termed this innate ability to learn language as...
What is the Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
Name the Skill according to the scenario:
Jen learned that ice could melt and be refrozen, but eggs cannot be unscrambled.
What is Reversibility?
What does the following formula calculate?
mental age ÷ chronological age × 100
IQ (Intelligence Quotient)
Which intelligence best fits the following scenario:
Nancy has a "green thumb". She loves to observe nature and is very knowledgable about botany.
Naturalistic
Phonetics vs. Phonology
Phonetics- The study of individual speech sounds
Phonolgy- The study of phonemes (which are the speech sounds of an individual language)
With this theory parents/caregivers use "rewards" to encourage language in a functional manner
What is B.F. Skinner's Operant Conditioning?
Name the Skill according to the scenario:
Benji recognizes that a deflated soccer ball is still a soccer ball.
Identity
Represented Visually: the pattern of scores usually observed in a variable that clusters around its average
Normal Distribution/ Bell Curve
Interpersonal vs. Intrapersonal
The ability to understand and interact effectively with others vs. The ability to have insight into the self
Syntax vs. Semantics
Syntax- the study of sentences and phrases, or how people put words into the right order so that they can communicate meaningfully
Semantics- the meaning of sentences. Someone who studies semantics is interested in words and what real-world object or concept those words denote, or point to
What is Whole Language Approach?
It attempts to teach reading as naturally as possible. As the sounds of words don’t have meaning, the focus is on reading words and sentences in context (such as real books), rather than learning the sounds and phonemes that makeup words.
Decentration focuses on more than one dimension that could change wheres Conservation...
the concept of conservation, which means that changing one quality can be compensated for by changes in another quality
Being "gifted" means a child has an IQ of this or higher
IQ of 130 or higher
If you were great at writing essays and an advanced reader then you might have this intelligence
What is Linguistic Intelligence?
The term associated with the following scenario:
the word “awesome,” when said with a big smile, means the person is excited about a situation. “Awesome,” said with crossed arms, rolled eyes, and a sarcastic tone, means the person is not thrilled with the situation
What is context/contextual information?
Assimilation vs. Accomodation
Assimilation- the process of changing one’s environment to place information into an already-existing schema (or idea)
Accommodation- the process of changing one’s schema to adapt to the new environment