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33 Cards in this Set
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Talent
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The capacity to produce exceptional performance
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Innate Ability
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An ability a peron was born with
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Between-class Ability Grouping
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A procedure in which children are assigned to different classes based on measured ability
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Individualized Education Plan (IEP) (or IPP, ILP)
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An Educational and behavioral intervention plan for students with special needs
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Entity View of Intelligence
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The belief that intellignce is genetically determined and not alterable (Goddards View)
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Culture-Free Tests
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Standardized tests that do not contain items that might favor one culture over another
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Inclusive Education
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Including students with special needs in a regular classroom and providing the necessary services
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Delibrate Practice
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Acitivty that is designed to improve ones skills in a particular area (the idea of 10000 hours)
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Within-class Ability Grouping
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A system in which children are assigned to ability groups within a single classroom
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Monotonic-benefits Assumption
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The argument that there is a one-to-one correspondence between ones effort and ones gain in a skill or ability
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Standard Deviation
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A measure of how far scores vary from the mean
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Crystallized Intelligence
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The use of aquired skills and knowledge, such as reading and language sklls (Cattell)
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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
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A numerical method for representing the level of a persons intellegence
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Primary Mental Abilities
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Thurstones theory of intelligence as consisting of seven distinct abilities (Verbal comprehension, Word fluency, Number facility, Spatial Visualization, Associate memory, Perceptual speed, Reasoning)
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Nature vs Nuture
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A shorthand term for the debate over whether mental abilites are developed by the indivduals environment (nuture) or inheritable traits (nature)
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Eugenics
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A political and scientific movement that argued for selective reproduction of indivduals and immigration laws based on intelligence levels
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Physiological Pyschology
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The study of the relationship between the brain, the nervous system and behavior
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Triarchic
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Comprised of 3 components, each of which is the top if a hierarchy (Theory of Sternberg, which says intelligence is made up of 3 types of skills, analytical, creative, and practical)
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Mental Age
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The age level associated with the ability to perform certain mental tasks
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Fluid Intelligence
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The ability to solve new problems, figure out what to do when one is not sure what to do and aquire new skills (Cattell)
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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
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A condition in which children experience persistent difficulties with attention span, impulse control and sometimes hyperactivity (Doug & Chris)
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Automaticity
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The ability to perform a task without having to think too much about it
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Existential Intelligence
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Conern with larger questions of human existence, such as the meaning of life
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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A condition in which children or adults constiently display inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness
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Metacognition
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Thinking about ones own thinking
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Bias
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Systematic unfair treatment of aparticular group of individuals
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Multiple-intellegences (MI) Theory
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A theory of intelligence that argues that individuals may exhibit multiple intelligences (eight or possibly more)
Gardners Theory - Logical/Mathematical, Linguistic, Spatial, Musical, Bodily/Kinesthetically, Naturalistic, Interpersonal (within), Intrepersonal (to others) |
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Incremental View of Intelligence
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The belief that intelligence can be improved through effort
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WISC IQ Test
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Standard Deviation is 15, Average is 100 (85-115 is normal), 68% normal, 4% special needs
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Giftedness
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Is the place between normal and 'special needs' (on the above average side)
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Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
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Is an AMERICAN law, but is applied in Canada. Also known as "No child left behind"
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Learning Disabilities
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Academic Skills Disorders (reading, writing, math), ADD/ADHD, Limited English Proficiency, Speech & Language disorders, autism
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Poverity...
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Poverity is not the CAUSE of learning disabilites, its the lack of resources that often come with poverity
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