SCHOOL LAW WGU D017 CORE EXAMS SET 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔WM - ✔✔Working Memory: Memory that involves holding information in mind to
bring to hindsight and forethought into decision making, to consider personal history and
possible future consequences for the purpose of planning, sequencing, summarizing,
reorganizing, problem solving, and the like.
✔✔Visual Perception - ✔✔The ability to take what they eyes see (color, form, and size)
and give these visual sensations meaning (to identify objects and words)
✔✔Auditory perception - ✔✔The ability to identify words/sentences from the sensations
of sound. Perception can also require a synthesis or blending of sounds and an analysis
or breaking of words into syllables
✔✔Short Term Memory - ✔✔Immediate recall (within seconds when rehearsal is
prevented) of from 3 to 9 elements (words, digits, letters)
✔✔Long Term Memory - ✔✔The ability to recall information, such as math facts,
learning last week, last month, or years earlier
✔✔GT - ✔✔Gifted and Talented
✔✔EF - ✔✔Executive Functioning: Self-regulatory process involved in such tasks as
identifying problems, goal setting, developing plans, and evaluating or self-monitoring
the implementations of plans
✔✔EQ - ✔✔Emotional Intelligence: The ability to identify and understand one's own and
others' emotions by "reading" faces, gestures, and tone of voice- in essence to read
between the lines of what is spoken
✔✔Temperament - ✔✔Biologically based behavioral style that has a number of
components.
1) Emotionality or the degree at which a person can become upset
2) Sociability or the degree at which a person prefers the presence of others
3) Activity or the degree to which a person is restless
4) Shyness or the degree to which a person is uneasy in unfamiliar social situations
✔✔Right-Hemispheric Functions - ✔✔Functions of the right side of the brain. Damage
to this region can impair pragmatics in language and in the nonverbal aspects of
communication (Understanding sarcasm, humor, irony)
✔✔Arousal - ✔✔Psychological activation of the child, which has trait qualities (inborn
individual differences) and state qualities that depend on setting conditions (number of
people in a setting)
, ✔✔Yerkes-Dodson Law - ✔✔Developed by psychologist Robert M. Yerkes and John D.
Dudson (1908). This law posits that performance increased alertness (arousal), but only
up to a certain level, and when arousal is too high, performance decreases
✔✔State - ✔✔Behavior, thinking, or mood that is temporary and depends on the
conditions within the setting, such as time, task, persons, and amount of light or noise
✔✔FA - ✔✔Functional Analysis or Functional Assessment: Assessment of a child's
behavior in specific settings, tasks, or with specific persons produced a better
understanding of how the child attempts to adopt his or her behavior to the immediately
surrounding conditions
✔✔Response to Intervention - ✔✔An assessment of achievements (reading) as it
changes over time as the result of intervention
✔✔EBP - ✔✔Empirically Based Practice (evidence based practice): scientifically tested
practice that has demonstrated effectiveness
✔✔Antecedents - ✔✔What precedes a particular behavior (time, setting, task, and so
on)
✔✔UDL - ✔✔Universal Design for Learning: a philosophy related to designing and
delivering products and services within a classroom that are usable by people with the
widest range of capabilities. UDL should be in place before any student enters the
classroom.
✔✔Inclusion Classroom - ✔✔Classroom in general education that include students who
have disabilities or who are at risk for disabilities
✔✔Task Analysis - ✔✔The breaking down of a task into it's component parts, typically
as they can be arranged sequentially, to achieve overall task
✔✔Dysgraphia - ✔✔Difficulty with the task of handwriting
✔✔Contemporary behavior - ✔✔Individuals may work around their weak areas by
relying on their stronger areas of functioning. For example, difficulties understanding
gestures, tones of voice, and facial expressions can be offset by stronger verbal skills.
✔✔Receptive Language Skills - ✔✔Listening skills (in the area of spoken language) and
reading and math skills (in the area of written language)
✔✔Phonetics - ✔✔Phonetics deals with the physical production of sounds
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔WM - ✔✔Working Memory: Memory that involves holding information in mind to
bring to hindsight and forethought into decision making, to consider personal history and
possible future consequences for the purpose of planning, sequencing, summarizing,
reorganizing, problem solving, and the like.
✔✔Visual Perception - ✔✔The ability to take what they eyes see (color, form, and size)
and give these visual sensations meaning (to identify objects and words)
✔✔Auditory perception - ✔✔The ability to identify words/sentences from the sensations
of sound. Perception can also require a synthesis or blending of sounds and an analysis
or breaking of words into syllables
✔✔Short Term Memory - ✔✔Immediate recall (within seconds when rehearsal is
prevented) of from 3 to 9 elements (words, digits, letters)
✔✔Long Term Memory - ✔✔The ability to recall information, such as math facts,
learning last week, last month, or years earlier
✔✔GT - ✔✔Gifted and Talented
✔✔EF - ✔✔Executive Functioning: Self-regulatory process involved in such tasks as
identifying problems, goal setting, developing plans, and evaluating or self-monitoring
the implementations of plans
✔✔EQ - ✔✔Emotional Intelligence: The ability to identify and understand one's own and
others' emotions by "reading" faces, gestures, and tone of voice- in essence to read
between the lines of what is spoken
✔✔Temperament - ✔✔Biologically based behavioral style that has a number of
components.
1) Emotionality or the degree at which a person can become upset
2) Sociability or the degree at which a person prefers the presence of others
3) Activity or the degree to which a person is restless
4) Shyness or the degree to which a person is uneasy in unfamiliar social situations
✔✔Right-Hemispheric Functions - ✔✔Functions of the right side of the brain. Damage
to this region can impair pragmatics in language and in the nonverbal aspects of
communication (Understanding sarcasm, humor, irony)
✔✔Arousal - ✔✔Psychological activation of the child, which has trait qualities (inborn
individual differences) and state qualities that depend on setting conditions (number of
people in a setting)
, ✔✔Yerkes-Dodson Law - ✔✔Developed by psychologist Robert M. Yerkes and John D.
Dudson (1908). This law posits that performance increased alertness (arousal), but only
up to a certain level, and when arousal is too high, performance decreases
✔✔State - ✔✔Behavior, thinking, or mood that is temporary and depends on the
conditions within the setting, such as time, task, persons, and amount of light or noise
✔✔FA - ✔✔Functional Analysis or Functional Assessment: Assessment of a child's
behavior in specific settings, tasks, or with specific persons produced a better
understanding of how the child attempts to adopt his or her behavior to the immediately
surrounding conditions
✔✔Response to Intervention - ✔✔An assessment of achievements (reading) as it
changes over time as the result of intervention
✔✔EBP - ✔✔Empirically Based Practice (evidence based practice): scientifically tested
practice that has demonstrated effectiveness
✔✔Antecedents - ✔✔What precedes a particular behavior (time, setting, task, and so
on)
✔✔UDL - ✔✔Universal Design for Learning: a philosophy related to designing and
delivering products and services within a classroom that are usable by people with the
widest range of capabilities. UDL should be in place before any student enters the
classroom.
✔✔Inclusion Classroom - ✔✔Classroom in general education that include students who
have disabilities or who are at risk for disabilities
✔✔Task Analysis - ✔✔The breaking down of a task into it's component parts, typically
as they can be arranged sequentially, to achieve overall task
✔✔Dysgraphia - ✔✔Difficulty with the task of handwriting
✔✔Contemporary behavior - ✔✔Individuals may work around their weak areas by
relying on their stronger areas of functioning. For example, difficulties understanding
gestures, tones of voice, and facial expressions can be offset by stronger verbal skills.
✔✔Receptive Language Skills - ✔✔Listening skills (in the area of spoken language) and
reading and math skills (in the area of written language)
✔✔Phonetics - ✔✔Phonetics deals with the physical production of sounds
