Differential Instruction
Cognitive theories of development
Social theories of development
Terms
Physiology and the brain
100
The name of the act that requires students in grades 3-8 (and once more in high school) to take annual standardized achievement tests in reading and mathematics.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act
100
The term used to refer to certain changes that occur in human beings between conception and death.
What is development
100
In Bronfenbrenner's social theory, the system of people immediately surrounding the individual is referred to as this.
What is a microsystem?
100
A number that indicates both the strength and the direction of a relationships (e.g. -1.00 to 1.00)
What is a correlation
100
The term for the outer 1/8-inch-thick covering the brain
What is the cerebral cortex
200
The number one predictor of future student success is this.
What is student-teacher relationships
200
A _______ period is a time when a person is especially ready for or response to certain experiences and is most supported by research.
What is sensitive
200
The parenting style with high warmth and high control is termed this.
What is authoritative parenting
200
The type of research study that can determine cause and effect
What is experimentation?
200
The idea that a person's strengths and weaknesses are based on the strongest side of their brain (right vs left) is _________.
What is false
300
The idea that good instruction provides not only accommodations for students, but views diversity as an array of strengths on which to build
What is differentiated instruction
300
What are the four stages of Piaget's theory of cognitive development?
What is sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations
300
The stage of social development from 3-6 years in which a child continues to develop autonomy but can be impulsive and do things incorrectly, leading to feelings of guilt is _________________; this is the _________ of Erikson's eight stages of development.
What is Initiative vs. Guilt; what is 3rd
300
The understanding that objects exist in the environment whether the child perceives them or not is referred to as __________________; the stage of cognitive development during which this is achieved.
What is object permanence; sensorimotor
300
The area of the brain that is still underdeveloped in adolescence and controls an individual's ability to plan ahead and assess risk is the ________________ _____________.
What is the prefrontal cortex
400
What type of experimental study uses groups that are predetermined to study cause and effect?
What is quasi-experimentation
400
The term used to refer to organized systems of actions or thought that allow us to mentally represent or "think about" the objects and events in our world.
What is schemas
400
The stage of development in which a child answers the question of "who am I?" and engaged in exploring and committing to facets of their personality is _______________; this is Erikson's __________ stage of psychosocial development.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion; what is 5th
400
The principle that amount or number of something remains the same even if the arrangement or appearance is changed is _____________________; this idea is obtained during this stage of development.
What is conservation; what is proportional
400
What are at least three systems of the brain that are used in reading?
What is (varies)
500
The thought that the best support to provide to lower-achieving students is to encourage independence and let them complete the work on their own is ___________; the thought that students who skip a grade generally have difficulties in social interaction is ______________.
What is false; false
500
The term to describe the phase at which a child can master a task if given appropriate help and support is: and this term was developed by:
What is the zone of proximal development; Vygotsky
500
Name the 6 stages of moral development according to Kohlberg
What is Obedience Orientation, Rewards/Exchange Orientation, Being Nice/Relationships Orientation, Law and Order Orientation, Social Contract Orientation, and Universal Ethical Principles Orientation.
500
An operation depending on a child's abilities to focus on a single characteristic of objects in a set and group the objects according to that characteristic; this ability is developed in this stage of development.
What is classification; what is concrete operations
500
True or false: the brain is more malleable at a young age than an old age.
What is true
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