Ability to solve problems and to adapt to and learn from experiences.
What is intelligence
100
Child's ability to reason logically about direct experiences and perceptions
What is Concrete Operational Thought
100
A global evaluative dimension of the self
What is self-esteem
100
Education in which children are taught at home, usually by their parents
What is home schooling
100
Condition that results not from a genetic disorder but rather from development in a below-average intellectual environment
What is cultural familial retardation
200
A person's level of mental development relative to others
What is mental age
200
Term for organizing things into groups according to some characteristic they have in common
What is classification
200
In this stage of development, with regard to self-concept, one develops a basic sense of individuality
What is toddlerhood
200
This act became a U.S. law intended to increase accountability in education by requiring schools to qualify for federal education funding by administering standardized tests to measure school achievement
What is the No Child Left Behind Act
200
The field that uses insights into typical development to understand and remediate developmental disorders
What is developmental psychopathology
300
(Mental age/ Chronological age) X 100
What is the mathematical equation of IQ (intelligence quotient)
300
According to Piaget, when children classify objects, each class includes some elements and excludes others. What is this principle called?
What is hierarchy of categories
300
The ability to regulate one’s emotions and actions through effort
What is effortful control
300
Public schools with their own set of standards that are funded and licensed by state or local district
What are charter schools
300
The ability to perceive and express emotion accurately and adaptively, to understand emotion and emotional knowledge, to use feelings to facilitate thought, and to manage emotions in oneself and others
What is emotional intelligence
400
The potential to master a certain skill or to learn a certain body of knowledge
What is aptitude
400
According to Piaget, the prinicple behind the equation, A = B and B = C, so A = C, is what?
What is transitive inference
400
In this stage of development, children generally develop a positive, global self-concept
What is early childhood
400
Schools traditionally affiliated with the Catholic Church that are funded by tuition charges, endowments, and often churches or other non-profit sponsors
What are private schools
400
Psychosocial stage in which children attempt to master many skills, thus developing a sense of themselves as either competent or incompetent
What is 'Industry vs. Inferiority'
500
Term for the worldwide increase in intelligence test scores over a short period of time
What is the Flynn Effect
500
The principle of ordering stimuli along a quantitative dimensions is called what?
What is seriation
500
In this stage of development, a child's self-concept becomes more specific and logical
What is middle childhood
500
A public subsidy for tuition payment at a non-public school
What is a voucher
500
The presence of two or more disorders in one person at one time