EXAM: MTTC Elementary Exam with Complete
Solutions
Psychomotor Correct Answer-of or relating to the origination of movement in conscious
mental activity.
Cognitive Correct Answer-the act or process of knowing; perception.
Kinesthetic Correct Answer-the sensation of movement or strain in muscles, tendons, and
joints; muscle sense.
Affective Correct Answer-of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional;
causing emotion or feeling.
Metaphor Correct Answer-something used, or regarded as being used, to represent
something else; emblem; symbol; a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to
an object or action that it does not literally denote in order to imply a resemblance, for
example he is a lion in battle Compare simile
Integers Correct Answer-Whole numbers plus negatives. One of the positive or negative
numbers -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, etc., or zero.
,EXAM: MTTC Elementary Exam with Complete
Solutions
Whole Numbers Correct Answer-Natural Numbers plus 0. Also called counting number.
one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, ...).
Natural Numbers Correct Answer-Naturally numbers you can count on your hands and
your feet. A positive integer or 0. 1, 2, 3, 4, ....
Rational Numbers Correct Answer-integers plus fractions like -3, 1/2, 5/8 and 14.2; a
number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
word recognition Correct Answer-the ability of a reader to recognize written words
correctly and virtually effortlessly.
Structural analysis Correct Answer-When readers use structural analysis they combine
phonics letter-sound patterns into large, multiletter chunks. Structural analysis makes it
possible for the child to read compound words (baseball) and contractions (can't) as single
units.
, EXAM: MTTC Elementary Exam with Complete
Solutions
circumlocution Correct Answer-a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more
words than necessary to express an idea.
Phonological awareness Correct Answer-the study of the distribution and patterning of
speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation. The
understanding that speech is composed of sub-parts -- sentences are comprised of words,
words are comprised of syllables, syllables are comprised of onsets and rimes, and can be
further broken down to phonemes (phonological awareness at this level is usually described
as phoneme awareness).
Morpheme Correct Answer-The smallest meaningful unit of speech. A morpheme can be a
free form (as in PIN) or a bound form ( -S in PINS), that contains no smaller meaningful parts.
The morpheme is a sub-component of vocabulary; many words only have one morpheme, but
some, such as compound words or words with affixes, have more than one.
Morphology Correct Answer-An examination of the morphemic structure of words; an
appreciation of the fact that words with common roots share common meanings, and that
affixes change words in predictable and consistent ways.
Solutions
Psychomotor Correct Answer-of or relating to the origination of movement in conscious
mental activity.
Cognitive Correct Answer-the act or process of knowing; perception.
Kinesthetic Correct Answer-the sensation of movement or strain in muscles, tendons, and
joints; muscle sense.
Affective Correct Answer-of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional;
causing emotion or feeling.
Metaphor Correct Answer-something used, or regarded as being used, to represent
something else; emblem; symbol; a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to
an object or action that it does not literally denote in order to imply a resemblance, for
example he is a lion in battle Compare simile
Integers Correct Answer-Whole numbers plus negatives. One of the positive or negative
numbers -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, etc., or zero.
,EXAM: MTTC Elementary Exam with Complete
Solutions
Whole Numbers Correct Answer-Natural Numbers plus 0. Also called counting number.
one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, ...).
Natural Numbers Correct Answer-Naturally numbers you can count on your hands and
your feet. A positive integer or 0. 1, 2, 3, 4, ....
Rational Numbers Correct Answer-integers plus fractions like -3, 1/2, 5/8 and 14.2; a
number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
word recognition Correct Answer-the ability of a reader to recognize written words
correctly and virtually effortlessly.
Structural analysis Correct Answer-When readers use structural analysis they combine
phonics letter-sound patterns into large, multiletter chunks. Structural analysis makes it
possible for the child to read compound words (baseball) and contractions (can't) as single
units.
, EXAM: MTTC Elementary Exam with Complete
Solutions
circumlocution Correct Answer-a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more
words than necessary to express an idea.
Phonological awareness Correct Answer-the study of the distribution and patterning of
speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation. The
understanding that speech is composed of sub-parts -- sentences are comprised of words,
words are comprised of syllables, syllables are comprised of onsets and rimes, and can be
further broken down to phonemes (phonological awareness at this level is usually described
as phoneme awareness).
Morpheme Correct Answer-The smallest meaningful unit of speech. A morpheme can be a
free form (as in PIN) or a bound form ( -S in PINS), that contains no smaller meaningful parts.
The morpheme is a sub-component of vocabulary; many words only have one morpheme, but
some, such as compound words or words with affixes, have more than one.
Morphology Correct Answer-An examination of the morphemic structure of words; an
appreciation of the fact that words with common roots share common meanings, and that
affixes change words in predictable and consistent ways.
