Term
|
Definition
| a term that implies noticeable improvement over preoperational thought, but with lingering lapses in logic |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| our thinking about the "rightness" or "wrongness" of specific behaviors in everyday situations |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a mental structure that unconsciously guides a child's behavior |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a debilitating psychological state that undermines the child's ability to think or behave rationally |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| that provides the child with an internal image that the child strives to become |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| to reason logically about rules and concepts of right and wrong |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an inflexible view that behaviors are either right or wrong, with no in-between |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| decides the rightness and wrongness of behaviors--his or her own or those of others--strictly by their consequences, irrespective of the person's intentions |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the notion that you always get punished for behaving inappropriately and rewarded for behaving appropriately, and conversely, that if you get punished, you must have done something bad, or, if you get rewarded, you must have done something good |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| that each individual is constrained by a finite pool of mental resources that can be allocated to various thought processes and that total mental capacity is a constant throughout development |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| urge to learn and to achieve that comes from within |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Children who perform in school but with little spontaneous interest in learning |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| letters are merely elements of word-pictures |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an understanding that spoken words are composed of sequences of sounds |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| refers to the ability to interpret printed letters as a code for spoken words, and comprehension refers to the ability to understand words that have been decoded |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The second approach to reading instruction |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a more specific reading disability that is independent of aptitude or intelligence |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| named for the biblical passage that suggests that "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer." |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Severe disability in learning mathematics |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an extreme lack of confidence in one's ability to learn and to perform mathematics |
|
|
