Assessment and Education for Students with Disabilities

1.Valuable Information about the student’s skills and needs can come from: all of the Above

2.Which Of the following is the primary purpose of assessment? All of the above

3.Prior To 1975 in the United States, discrimination against those with disabilities Was prevalent in schools. The type of discrimination most evident was? Both A and B

4.By The early 1950’s all of the above

5.Brown V. Board of Education both A and B

6.Which Case involved the idea that schools may not exclude students who have been

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Groups and Aggregates: A Sociological Perspective

Groups versus aggregates:-

Aggregates = a simple collection of people who happen to be together in a particular place but do not significantly interact or identify with one another People who might share a setting for interaction, but not actually undertake it—they might practice civil inattention *

Groups = a collection of people who regularly interact with one another on the basis of shared expectations concerning behavior and who share a sense of common identity * Wait, why isn’t this just

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Social Constructivism and Modern Feminism: A Sociological Perspective

Social Constructivism

Everything exists become individual give them reality through social agreement: money (no value if we don’t put it) P. BERGER and T. LUCKMANN: started social constructivism in “The Social Construction of Reality”

Reality is socially constructed and therefore individuals are not completely responsible.

Individuals construct society, but society also socially construct individuals. “society: product of a human design”GENDER is socially constructed. “Women socially construct

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Understanding Social Psychology and Sociology

Social Psychology and Sociology

Social psychology is a branch of psychology that studies how society influences the behavior, feelings, and emotions of individuals. Sociology, on the other hand, studies how society is formed, as well as organizations, institutions, and social networks. They do this through empirical means, and usually has the purpose of understanding how groups of individuals behave.

The Basis of Sociology: the Group

Groups influence our personal and social identity. Any social interaction

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The Magic Number 7 and Working Memory: A Comprehensive Study

George Miller 7+/- items, internal mental processes->manageable chunks

STM: Brwn/Pet Tech-material in memory>1min=forget.(remember items, back by 3s as a distractor; try recall): rehearsal improves recall!

– Ser.Pos.Effect: 1st&last in a series best, mid worst. RecEffect: last info>first info. PriEffect: first info > mid/end

– Wick: Proact.Inter (PI), used B&P but varied semantic similarity(trial 4 most PI), no PI when category of items shifted

– Atkin/Shiff Mod of Info Pro: a) similar

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Methods of Naturalistic Observation and Self-Report in Psychology

Methods

Naturalistic Observation

  • Researcher collects information without the participant’s awareness
  • Advantages: Researcher does not influence the participant’s behavior, so it may be more representative than if people knew they were being watched
  • Disadvantages: Not everything can be observed in its natural environment, expensive

Structured Observation

  • Researchers can set up a situation and observe that participant’s behavior
  • Advantages: Researcher has more control of the situation and can keep most
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