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The way people change and improve in their ability to think and learn throughout life.
What is cognitive development?
Refers to physical changes in size, such as gains in height and weight.
What is growth?
Physical skills involving smaller muscles in the body, such as the hands and wrists. Examples include picking up objects, writing, and keyboarding.
What are fine-motor skills?
Development that includes the areas of relationships and feellings.
What is social-emotional development?
Advances in physical abilities.
What is physical development?
The theory that states that people tend to repeat behaviors that have a positive result or are reinforced.
What is operant conditioning?
All of the actions or processes involving thought and feelings.
The name of the high school you are attending.
What is Positive Solutions Charter?
Auggie was a student in a movie.
What is "Wonder"?
The theory that behaviors can be associated with response.
What is classical conditioning?
Learning that takes place when students actually experience and then reflect on their learning.
What is experiential learning?
Rapid increases in height and weight, such as those associated with puberty.
What are growth spurts?
When body parts grow at different rates.
What is asynchrony?
The ability to think about thinking.
What is metacognition?
Feeling incapable of being defeated or having anything bad happen to you.
What is invincibility?
State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness
What is STAAR?
This test represents 30% of your grade for half the semester.
What is a midterm?
Math that works with shapes, and angles.
What is geometry?
Learning that takes place when students work in group to discuss and solve problems together.
What is collaborative learning?
Not based on, or affiliated with, any religion.
What is nonsectarian?
The physical transformation from a child to an adult capable of reproduction.
Thinking about things that are actually experienced.
What is concrete thinking?
Independence that includes personal responsibility and decision making.
What is autonomy?
A person who has met the state requirements for teacher preparation.
What is a certified teacher?
The part of the brain responsible for emotional reactions, such as anger.
What is the amygdala?