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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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1. Internalized self-talk.






2. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






3. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






4. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






5. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






6. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






7. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






8. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






9. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






10. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






11. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






12. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






13. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






14. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is stable and external to the student.






15. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






16. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






17. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






18. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






19. The study of how students learn and develop.






20. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






21. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






22. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






23. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






24. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






25. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.






26. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






27. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






28. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.






29. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






30. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






31. The results one expects from different behaviors.






32. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






33. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






34. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






35. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






36. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






37. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn






38. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






39. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






40. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






41. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.






42. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






43. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






44. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






45. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






46. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






47. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






48. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






49. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






50. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.







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