SED 206 Final Chapters 10-12

The percentage of students that have an IQ in the Average range is

50%

What is the delivery of information through sound

Auditory modality

What is the delivery of information through taste

Gustatory modality

When children take intelligence tests they normally receive an overall:

IQ score

On almost all intelligence tests, the mean IQ score is _____ with a standard deviation of _____

IQ score: 100 Standard Deviation: 15.0

What steps describe the learning process?

Input of Information, Organization of Information, Expression of Information

Is a general term referring to the ability to learn and to behave adaptively

Intelligence

IQ is an abbreviation for:

Intelligence Quotient

What is the delivery of information through movement

Kinesthetic modality

What is the delivery of information through smell

Olfactory modality

When we evaluate a child's _______ we are looking to see if there is a deficit in some area of the learning process that may be slowing down the processing of information, thereby interfering in the child's ability to receive, organize, memorize or express information.

Perceptual abilities

Association or Organization is:

Relating new information to other information and giving meaning to the information received

In special education, intelligence testing is usually completed by a

School Psychologist

Which skills do intelligence tests attempt to measure?

Social judgment Perceptual organization Processing speed Long- and short-term memory Abstract thinking

What is the delivery of information through touching

Tactile modality

Visual figure-ground discrimination:

The ability to differentiate relevant stimuli (the figure) from irrelevant stimuli (the background)

Auditory discrimination:

The ability to differentiate the sounds in one's environment

Visual discrimination:

The ability to differentiate visually the forms and symbols in one's environment

Visual coordination:

The ability to follow and track objects with coordinated eye movements

Which terms/phrases are associated with intelligence?

The ability to learn and to behave adaptively

Auditory association:

The ability to organize and associate auditory presented material in a meaningful way

Visual association:

The ability to organize and associate visually presented material in a meaningful way

Visual spatial relationships:

The ability to perceive the relative positions of objects in space

Auditory sequential memory:

The ability to recall in correct sequence and detail prior auditory information

Visual sequential memory:

The ability to recall in correct sequence and detail prior visual information

Auditory motoric expression:

The ability to reproduce motorically prior auditorily presented material or experiences

Visual motoric expression (visual motor integration):

The ability to reproduce motorically prior visually presented material or experiences

Auditory vocal expression:

The ability to reproduce vocally prior auditorily presented material or experiences

Visual vocal expression:

The ability to reproduce vocally prior visually presented material or experiences

Auditory long-term memory:

The ability to retain and recall general and specific long-term auditory information

Visual long-term memory:

The ability to retain and recall general and specific long-term visual information

Auditory short-term memory:

The ability to retain and recall general and specific short-term auditory information

Visual short-term memory:

The ability to retain and recall general and specific short-term visual information

Perception is:

The initial organization of information

Reception is:

The initial receiving of information

Expression is:

The output of information through vocal, motoric or written responses

The objective of a perceptual evaluation is:

To help determine the child's stronger and weaker modality for learning

True or False: Most individually administered intelligence tests can determine, at least to some degree, a child's ability to attend, process information quickly, distinguish relevant from less relevant details, put events in sequence, and retrieve words from memory.

True

True or False: The IQ score often represents a measure of the child's overall potential relative to the norms of his or her age group

True

On the Wechsler Scale for Children, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-4th edition (WISC-IV), there are four parts called Composite Indexes, what are they?

Verbal Composite Index (VCI) Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI) Working Memory Index (WMI) Processing Speed Index (PSI)

What is the delivery of information through sight

Visual modality

It is very important that special educators learn how to interpret the results of intellectual measures so that they can:

a. Substantiate a diagnosis b. Help determine learning style c. Assist in making recommendations d. Arrive at accurate levels of intellectual expectation