...Thinking, Language and Intelligence THINKING = Cognition = mental activities involved with knowing, remembering, and communicating 1. Using (and underlining) text terms of concepts, hierarchies and prototypes, explain why it is more difficult for people to perceive illness when their symptoms do not match their expectations; also give a personal example of this thinking pattern. Response: Concepts may help guide and speed are thinking but they don't always make us wise. If a person perceives an illness and symptoms don't match the prototype of the disease it makes it harder for them to grasp the fact they have a particular illness. About a year ago I thought I was having a heart attack because I felt the pain in my left arm and shortness of breath or sharp pain in my chest. After going to the emergency room I found out I just had a bad case of gas. I think this is an example of my expectations of the illness being totally wrong. The way I thought about the hierarchy of a heart attack being at the top, made me think and actually believe I was having a heart attack. 2. Here is a brain exercise: What is the next number in this series: 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, _____ For each of the 3 problem-solving thinking methods, explain how a person could use the method to solve this exercise: A. Algorithm: Response: An algorithm is step-by-step process or procedure that guarantees a solution. For this exercise I think that counting the difference between numbers as...
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...Ch 11 Practice Test #3 1. Which term does not belong with the others about reliability? A. Test-retest B. Parallel forms C. Construct D. Split-half 2. Which of the following is not a type of validity? A. Split-half B. Face C. Construct D. Criterion 3. In general, it would be safest to say that a test A. That is not reliable is also not valid B. Can be valid without also being reliable C. Cannot be reliable without also being valid D. Cannot be both reliable and valid 4. A man receives a score of 50 on a test. In order to understand what this score means, it is necessary to A. Also know the validity of the test B. Have access to statistical norms for the test C. Get collaborating information about the man’s anger from a trained professional D. Know whether the test was administered by a professional 5. What question eventually led to the development of the first workable intelligence test was A. “What needs to be done in order to ensure a strong military-industrial complex?” B. “What needs to be done in order to produce mathematically gifted students?” C. “How can individuals be helped in their striving for self-actualization?” D. “How can developmentally disabled children be taught more effectively?” 6. An 8-year-old child has just taken Alfred Binet’s test of intelligence and has been told his mental age is ten. This means that A. His chronological age must be nine. B. He is less intelligent than most 10-year-olds C. His score equals the...
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...As Albert Einstein once said, “Intellectual growth should start at birth and commence only at death.” While everybody may not have the same aptitudes and abilities in every area, a growth mindset and persistence allows competence in all areas. And it is this, I believe, is a more accurate description of the mission statement of any school: Material can always be learned, but the discipline and the methods of doing so involved is often even more important. Looking back to my middle school, I can really see the difference a few months of high school has made on my habits as a student and a person. In middle school, most of my assignments were often completed five minutes before the period started, somehow earning me an ‘A’ in every class and...
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...Psyc 110 Quiz and Final Exam Study Guide YOU MAY WANT TO PRINT THIS GUIDE. 1. The quizzes and final exam are "open book, open notes." The maximum time you can spend on a quiz is 45 minutes. On the final you will have 3 hours and 30 minutes. If you have not clicked the “Submit For Grade” button by the end of the allotted time, you will be automatically exited from the exam. In the final exam environment, the Windows clipboard is disabled, so you will not be able to copy exam questions or answers to or from other applications. 2. You should click the “Save Answers” button in the exam frequently. This helps prevent connection timeouts that might occur with certain Internet Service Providers, and also minimizes lost answers in the event of connection problems. If your Internet connection does break, when you reconnect, you will normally be able to get back into your final exam without any trouble. Remember, though, that the exam timer continues to run while students are disconnected, so students should try to re-login as quickly as possible. The Help Desk cannot grant any student additional time on the exam. 3. See Syllabus "Due Dates for Assignments & Exams" for due date information. 4. Reminders * You will only be able to enter your online quizzes and final exam one time. * Click the "Save Answers" button often. * If you lose your Internet connection during a quiz or the final exam, logon again and try to access it. If you are unable to enter it again...
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...Week 2, Chapter 2 1. Why are males more likely to have a sex-linked trait than females? Answer Men have only one X chromosome which makes the poor schleps chances of x linked traits bigger than women, who have two X chromosomes. Having two X chromosomes means that the trait can be cancelled out by the opposing X. 2 Characteristics such as hair color and height are called Answer 2 answers * phenotypes. * chromosomes. * genotypes. * zygotes. 3 A genotype Answer 3 answers * is a rodlike structure in the cell nucleus that transmits genetic information. * reflects an individual's physical and behavioral characteristics, determined both by environmental and genetic factors. * refers to the genetic makeup of an individual. * is a directly observable characteristic. 4 The DNA of humans and chimpanzees is between __________ percent identical. Answer 4 answers * 75 and 80 * 20 and 25 * 50 and 55 * 98 and 99 5 A person whose 23rd pair of chromosomes is XY Answer 5 answers * has PKU. * is male. * has Down syndrome. * cannot be a fraternal twin. 6 A zygote that separates into two clusters of cells instead of just one produces ...
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...BEST WAY TO STUDY For some time, research studies have concluded that we do not learn / study in precisely the same way. For this brief commentary, I have deliberately grouped both terms as similar. While this common sense approach towards scholarship represents a welcomed message for parents and students, many teachers still teach a large number of pupils one way, more often than not, by using traditional teaching styles that might appear to be successful for the teacher but unsuccessful for a large majority of the youngsters seated in front of them. This is incorrect teaching -- proof that common sense continues to be not all that common within many of today's classrooms. My following commentary attempts to address this key issue, while at the same time, to offer suggestions for possible classroom improvement. If teachers require their students to receive domain-specific information in a way that does not correspond with their dominant learning modalities, to perform under classroom conditions that interfere with their preferred learning, or to demonstrate learning in such a way that fails them to use their more dominant intelligences, then such teachers create within their students forms of artificial stress, reduced motivation, and repressed performance. Along this same line of thinking, there is a considerable body of research evidence suggesting that many special education students who have been formally categorized, for example, as learning disabled (LD) are, in fact...
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...Student Information edit title Student Strengths Morgan is a 15-year-old ninth grader with mild intellectual disabilities. She is happy, cooperative, and affectionate. Morgan enjoys volunteer work at the local food pantry and stocking shelves. She works independently on task to completion with great accuracy. Morgan is currently able to write simple sentences and paragraphs on a given topic with moderate assistance. She is able to complete journaling activities that describe her day with minimal assistance or prompts. Morgan has mastered telling time within five minute intervals and reading a calendar. Morgan has mastered home-living activities such as laundry and simple mean preparation in the Life Skills Lap at school. Student Interests Morgan states she would enjoy working in a grocery store or restaurant after high school. Teachers and family members have noted that she exhibits superior skills for her grade level in the kitchen and grocery store. In the kitchen and grocery store, Morgan displays great independence, requiring little prompting or direction to complete her task. Morgan states she would enjoy living in an apartment with a roommate after high school. When asked what she wanted to be doing when she is 25, Morgan states she would like to attend a cooking school and work in a restaurant as a cook. She states working in a grocery store while she is in school would be good to pay the bills until she finished cooking school. Assessments Enderle-Severson...
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...IQ OK E ER BO TH EV CE T I ES CT GG RA BI T P S TE IQ 1,000 Practice Test Questions to Boost your Brain Power PHILIP CARTER & KEN RUSSELL i IQ P H I L I P CA R T E R & K E N R U S S E L L London & Philadelphia ii Publisher’s note Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publishers and authors cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the editor, the publisher or any of the authors. Tests included in this book have previously been included in The Times Book of IQ Tests: Book 1 (2001), The Times Book of IQ Tests: Book 3 (2003) and The Times Book of IQ Tests: Book 5 (2005) published by Kogan Page. First published in this format, in Great Britain and the United States in 2007 by Kogan Page Limited. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licences issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should...
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...articles, please write to us or email. Clearly, a parent’s view is more valuable than anything we can suggest in this newsletter. Lastly, many of you will soon be coming up for your last issue within your subscription. For those who subscribed with us in June or July last year, I will be in touch with details. I hope this month finds you all well and happy. Until the next time, Happy holidays. The Editor 28 Wallis Close London SW11 2BA Email: info@giftedmonthly.com www.giftedmonthly.com July 2002 Issue 14 Inside this issue: News. What’s going on in education Your letters and Gifted Q&A Useful organisations you may not have heard of This month’s courses and events Patch up problems this summer with our rough guide Mind-benders and quiz for the kids Contacts, websites and books 2 3 4 6/7 8...
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...VOCATIONAL HIGHER SECONDARY TEACHER’S SOURCE BOOK COMPUTER SCIENCE FIRST YEAR Government of Kerala Department of Education SCERT - 2005-06 STATE COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING Vidyabhavan, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram-12 Prepared by: State Council of Educational Research & Training (SCERT) Vidyabhavan, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram -12 Kerala E-mail:scertkerala@asianetindia.com Type setting by: SCERT Computer Lab. © Government of Kerala Education Department 2005 P REFACE Dear Teachers, Computer Science is concerned with the gathering, manipulation, classification, storage and retrival of knowledge. Understanding Computer Science, is necessary because of its power and influence in modern society. Learning of Computer Science should be activity based, process oriented, student-centred, environmental based and life oriented. The approach to learning is based on five domains of science: Knowledge domain, process domain, application and connection domain, domain of attitudes and values and creativity domain. But we know that most of the present vocational higher secondary teachers are not familiar with this paradigm. Hence for the first time we are introducing sourcebooks for all the subjects in the vocational higher secondary curriculum. This source book for computer science aims to provide guidelines to the teachers of our state to change their pedagogy from the conventional content-based approach to the process...
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...Employers, job seekers, and puzzle lovers everywhere delight in William Poundstone's HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? "Combines how-to with be-smart for an audience of job seekers, interviewers, Wired-style cognitive science hobbyists, and the onlooking curious. . . . How Would You Move Mount Fuji? gallops down entertaining sidepaths about the history of intelligence testing, the origins of Silicon Valley, and the brain-jockey heroics of Microsoft culture." — Michael Erard, Austin Chronicle "A charming Trojan Horse of a book While this slim book is ostensibly a guide to cracking the cult of the puzzle in Microsoft's hiring practices, Poundstone manages to sneak in a wealth of material on the crucial issue of how to hire in today's knowledge-based economy. How Would You Move Mount Fuji? delivers on the promise of revealing the tricks to Microsoft's notorious hiring challenges. But, more important, Poundstone, an accomplished science journalist, shows how puzzles can — and cannot — identify the potential stars of a competitive company.... Poundstone gives smart advice to candidates on how to 'pass' the puzzle game.... Of course, let's not forget the real fun of the book: the puzzles themselves." — Tom Ehrenfeld, Boston Globe "A dead-serious book about recruiting practices and abstract reasoning — presented as a puzzle game.... Very, very valuable to some job applicants — the concepts being more important than the answers. It would have usefulness as well to interviewers with...
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...Chapter 1 Introduction Education is “an act of taking someone out of ignorance by means of teaching”, as defined by the World Book Encyclopedia. It is considered as social institution. It includes not only the effects of schooling, but also the more pervasive effects of child rearing practices gained from family training, social exposure and other means of media that a learner experienced and accumulated as part of his maturity. It is one of the purposes of education to prepare the youth for their future places in the society and prepare them to combat the real world. Schooling is only part of education. It is the place where a person gains proper training that his family cannot provide. Thus, in a school setting, education will not be considered a full one if there is no teacher. To teach is to make an assumption about what and how the students learn. Here in the Philippines, teachers are important factor in molding the society because of their tasks in guiding the learners out in the world of ignorance. Being a teacher demands basic competencies necessary in carrying out effectively his noble mission of promoting progressive human development and study social amelioration which involves hardwork, limitless dedication, and all around knowledge and skills. As part of the education curriculum, student teaching is one of the most important elements in the training of prospective teachers. According to Lugos (1985), student teaching is “designed to...
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...are able to learn multiple languages very quickly. However, as they get older, their ability to learn multiple languages quickly becomes more difficult. Social situations. At a young age children are not able to understand complex social situations such as parents fighting or divorce or financial problems between their parents. As they grow up and age, they begin to understand these social situations and deal with them. They may comfort a parent through a hard time, or go get a job to help with the financial situation. 2. Plasticity: One’s capacity is not predetermined or set in concrete. Many skills can be trained or improved with practice, even late in life. There are limits to the degree of potential improvement Ex: (original): Your IQ is not predetermined. You’re ability to play a sport is not predetermined. With practice and dedication you can improve your ability to play the sport. However, there are limits to how much you can improve in the sport. 3. Historical context: Each of us develops within a particular set of circumstances determined by the historical time in which we are born and the culture in which we grow up. Ex: (Book) Maria’s experiences were shaped by living in the 20th century in a Chicano neighbourhood. In South West Texas. Ex: (Original): Compare someone...
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...Outliers THE S T O R Y OF S U C C E S S MALCOLM G LAD W E L L # 1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink $27.99 $ 3 0 . 9 9 in C a n a d a Why d o s o m e p e o p l e succeed far more than others? T h e r e is a story that is usually told a b o u t extremely successful p e o p l e , a story that focuses o n intelligence a n d ambition. In Outliers Malcolm Gladwell a r g u e s that the true story o f s u c c e s s is very different, a n d that if we want to u n d e r s t a n d h o w s o m e p e o p l e thrive, we s h o u l d s p e n d m o r e time l o o k i n g around them — at s u c h things as their family, their birthplace, or even their birth d a t e . T h e story o f s u c c e s s is m o r e c o m p l e x — a n d a lot m o r e interesting — than it initially a p p e a r s . Outliers e x p l a i n s w h a t the B e a t l e s a n d Bill G a t e s have in c o m m o n , the e x t r a o r d i n a r y s u c c e s s o f A s i a n s at m a t h , the h i d d e n a d v a n t a g e s o f star athletes, why all t o p N e w York lawyers have the s a m e r é s u m é , a n d the r e a s o n y o u ' v e never h e a r d o f the w o r l d ' s s m a r t e s t m a n — all in terms o f g e n eration, family, c u l t u r e , a n d c l a s s . It matters w h a t year y o u were b o r n if y o u want to b e a S i l i c o n Valley billionaire, G l a d w e l l a r g u e s , a n d it matters w h e r e y o u w e r e b o r n if y o u want to b e a s u c cessful p i l o t . T...
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...Inevitably a Time of Psychological Turmoil Myth #8 Most People Experience a Midlife Crisis in | 8 Their 40s or Early 50s Myth #9 Old Age Is Typically Associated with Increased Dissatisfaction and Senility Myth #10 When Dying, People Pass through a Universal Series of Psychological Stages 3 A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST Myth #11 Human Memory Works like a Tape Recorder or Video Camera, and Accurate Events We’ve Experienced Myth #12 Hypnosis Is Useful for Retrieving Memories of Forgotten Events Myth #13 Individuals Commonly Repress the Memories of Traumatic Experiences Myth #14 Most People with Amnesia Forget All Details of Their Earlier Lives 4 TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS Myth #15 Intelligence (IQ) Tests Are Biased against Certain Groups of People My th #16 If You’re Unsure of Your Answer When Taking a Test, It’s Best to Stick with Your Initial Hunch Myth #17 The Defining Feature of Dyslexia Is Reversing Letters Myth #18 Students Learn Best When Teaching Styles Are Matched to Their Learning Styles 5 ALTERED STATES Myth #19 Hypnosis Is a Unique “Trance” State that Differs in Kind from Wakefulness Myth #20 Researchers Have Demonstrated that Dreams Possess Symbolic Meaning Myth #21 People Can Learn Information, like New Languages, while Asleep Myth #22 During “Out-of-Body” Experiences, People’s Consciousness Leaves Their Bodies 6 I’VE GOT A FEELING Myth #23 The...
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