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17 Cards in this Set
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child maltreatment
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Any act that seriously endangers a child's physical or emotional well-being
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achievement test
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Measures that evaluate a child's knowledge in specific school-related areas
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WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
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The standard intelligence test used in childhood, consisting of a Verbal Scale (questions for the child to answer), a Performace Scale (materials for the child to manipulate), and a variety of subtests.
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Mentally retarded
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The label for significantly impaired intellectual functioning, defined as when child (or adult) has an IQ of 70 or below accompanied by evidence of deficits in learning abilites
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Specific learning disability
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The label for any impairment in language or any deficit related to listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, or understanding mathematics; diagnosed when a score on an intelligence test is much higher than a child's performance on achievement test.
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dyslexia
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A learning disability that is charachterized by reading difficulties, lack of fluency, and poor word genetic in origin.
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Gifted
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The label for superior intellectual functioning characterized by an IQ score of 130 or above, showing that a child ranks in the top 2% of his age group
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Reliability
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In measurement terminology, a basic criterion of a test's accuracy that scores must be fairly similar when a person takes the test more than once
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Validity
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In measurement terminology, a basic criterion for a test's accuracy incolving whether that measure reflects the real-world quaility it is supposed to measure
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"g"
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Charles Spearment's term for a gerneral intelligence factor that he claimed underlies all cognitive activities
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Analytic intelligence
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In Robert Sternberg's framework on successful intelligence, the facet of intelligence involving performing well on academic-type problems
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Creative intelligence
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In Robert Sternberg's framework on successful intelligence, the facet of intelligence involved in producing novel ideas or innovative work
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Practical intelligence
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In Robert Sternberg's framework on successful intelligence, the facet of intelligence involved in knowing how to act competently in real-world situations
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Successful intelligence
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In Robert Sternberg's framework, the optimal form of cognition, incolcing having a good balance of analytic, creative, and practical intelligence
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Multiple intelligences theory
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In Howard Gardner's perspective on intelligence, the principle that there are eight separate kinds of intelligence-verbal, mathematical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist-plus a possible ninth form, called spititual intelligence
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Intrinsic motivation
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The drive to act based on the pleasure of taking that action in itself, not for an external reinforcer or reward
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Extrinsic motivation
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The drive to take an action because that activity offers external reinforcers such as praise, money, or a good grade
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