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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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1. 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 unstable and intrinsic to the student.






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






3. The use of physical punishment.






4. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






5. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






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






7. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






8. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






9. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






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






11. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.






12. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






13. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






14. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






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






16. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






17. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






18. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






19. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






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






21. 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.






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






23. The sensory register for auditory information.






24. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






25. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






26. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






27. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






28. Internalized self-talk.






29. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






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






31. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






32. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.






33. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






34. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






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






36. 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.






37. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






38. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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39. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






40. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






41. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






42. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






43. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






44. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.






45. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






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






47. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






48. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






49. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






50. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.







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