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What is room arrangement?
The logical starting point for classroom managment because it is a task that all teachers face before school begins.
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What is cognitive development?
The changes in mental skills that occur through increasing maturity and experience.
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What is intelligence?
Defined as goal directed, adaptive behavior.
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What is classical conditioning?
The learning process in which an originally neutral stimulus becomes associated with a particular physiological or emotional response.
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What is motivation?
An internal state that arouses, directs, and maintains behavior.
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What are high traffic areas?
It is important to keep this area clear of desks and other furniture.
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What is canalization?
The extent to which a behavior or an underlying ability developed without respect to the environment?
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What is the theory of primary mental ability?
Proposes that students' achievement in school can be understood partly in terms of their relative amounts of different abilities.
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What is operant conditioning?
Learning produced by rewards and punishments.
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What is anxiety?
A sense of nervousness, worry, and self-doubt.
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What is effectively managed?
A classroom that runs smoothly, with minimal confusion and downtime, and maximizes opportunities for student learning.
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What is pre-operational?
The stage of development which occurs for most children between approximately 24 months and 7 years of age.
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Who is Howard Gardner?
He proposed the theory of multiple intelligence.
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What are primary reinforcers?
Rewards such as food and shelter, that provide immediate satisfaction or enjoyment.
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What is the humanistic approach?
As it suggests, these views emphasize a higher-order incentive to achieve and excel from within.
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What are rules and procedures?
Stated expectations regarding behavior.
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Who is Erik Erikson?
Preposed what he called a psychosocial theory of personal development.
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What is an exceptional child?
One who is unusual in one or more ways, and whose unusual characteristics create special needs with respect to identification needs, instruction, or assessment.
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What is behavior modification?
The goal of this program is to produce self-regulated learners who will be able to control and modify their own behaviors.
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What is self-monitoring?
This refers to students keeping track of their own progress.
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What is major problem behavior?
Behavior that disrupts an activity or interferes with learning, but whose occurence is limited to a single student or perhaps to a few students not acting in concert.
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What is self-esteem?
The adolescent's view of oneself.
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What is full inclusion?
The placement of all students- even those with severe disabilities- into regular classrooms.
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What is social learning?
This takes place as we learn from observing other people's behavior an the results of their behavior.
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What is self-efficacy?
A person's belief in his or her ability to get things done.
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