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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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






2. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






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






4. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






5. The sensory register for visual information.






6. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






7. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






8. The study of the meaning behind words.






9. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






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






11. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






12. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






13. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






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






15. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.






16. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






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






18. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.






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






20. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






21. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






23. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






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






25. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






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






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






28. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






29. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






30. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.






31. The total length of the class.






32. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






33. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b






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






35. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).






36. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro






37. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.






38. 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.






39. How capable one actually is.






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






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






42. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






43. Internalized self-talk.






44. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.






45. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






46. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.






47. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






48. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






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






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







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