CogAT Kindergarten flashcards
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- Picture Analogy
- A verbal item read aloud that states a relationship between two pictures and asks the child to pick the picture completing the same relationship for a third picture.
- Relational similarity
- Matching by the relationship between pairs rather than by how much the pictures look alike; this is the skill picture analogies measure.
- Function relation
- An analogy link based on what something is used for, such as a spoon is to eating as a pencil is to writing.
- Category relation
- An analogy link based on kind membership, such as a dog is to animal as a rose is to flower.
- Part-whole relation
- An analogy link where one item is a component of the other, such as a wheel is to car as a petal is to flower.
- Opposite relation
- An analogy link pairing contrasting items, such as hot is to cold as up is to down.
- Picture Classification
- A verbal item asking which of three pictures belongs with a stated group, solved by finding the shared category and rejecting non-members.
- Sentence Completion
- An orally presented sentence with a missing word; the child chooses the picture whose object fits the sentence meaning and the word slot.
- Oral administration
- At kindergarten level the verbal and quantitative items are read aloud by the test administrator, so reading skill is not required to answer.
- Three-option format
- Kindergarten items present three picture choices, giving a one-in-three chance baseline for random guessing.
- Number Series
- A quantitative item showing a sequence of quantities or pictured objects, where the child identifies the constant step and supplies the next term.
- Constant difference rule
- The rule for most kindergarten series: subtract consecutive terms and, if the difference is the same each time, apply that step to the last term.
- Counting by twos
- A series rule producing 2, 4, 6, 8; each term is two more than the previous, so the next term is ten.
- Counting backward
- A series rule that decreases by a constant amount, such as 10, 9, 8, 7, where the next term is six.
- Number Analogy
- A quantitative item in the form A is to B as C is to ?, where the same arithmetic change links both pairs, such as adding one.
- One more, one less
- The most common kindergarten quantitative relation; given a quantity, the child identifies the quantity that is exactly one greater or one smaller.
- More, fewer, same
- Comparison items asking which pictured group has the greater, smaller, or equal quantity, judged by counting rather than by how spread out the objects are.
- Conservation of number
- The understanding that the count of a group does not change when the objects are rearranged or spread out; comparison items test this.
- One-to-one correspondence
- Pairing each object with exactly one number word while counting, the foundation for all quantitative items at this level.
- Cardinality
- The principle that the last number reached when counting a group names the total quantity of that group.
- Off-by-one distractor
- A wrong answer choice that differs from the correct quantity by exactly one, catching children who miscount or skip an object.
- Quantities within ten
- The range of numbers used in kindergarten quantitative items; sums and differences stay small and are shown with pictures.
- Figure Classification
- A nonverbal item presenting a set of shapes sharing an attribute, where the child selects another figure with that same attribute.
- Figure Analogy
- A nonverbal item where the transformation between two figures must be applied to a third figure to choose the fourth.
- Paper Folding
- A nonverbal item showing paper folded with holes punched; the answer shows the unfolded sheet with holes mirrored across each fold line.
- Fold doubling rule
- Each fold doubles the number of holes: one fold gives two holes, two folds give four, because every punch passes through all layers.
- Feature tracking
- Naming each attribute of a figure, such as shape, color, size, count, and position, then checking which attribute changes across the pattern.
- Matrix completion
- A nonverbal item arranged in rows and columns where the missing figure must satisfy the rule of its row and the rule of its column.
- Mental rotation
- Imagining a figure turned by a quarter or half turn; kindergarten items use small rotations and offer mirror images as distractors.
- Mirror-image distractor
- A wrong choice that is the reflection rather than the rotation of the target figure, a common trap in spatial items.
- Attribute count
- The number of sides or corners of a shape; it is a frequent basis for grouping figures in classification items.
- Single-feature error
- Choosing an answer that matches the pattern on only one attribute, such as color, while ignoring shape, size, or count.