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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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1. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.






2. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






3. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






4. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






5. 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






6. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






7. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






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






9. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






10. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






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






12. The study of the social aspects of language use.






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






14. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






15. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






16. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






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






18. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






19. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






20. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






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






22. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






23. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






24. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






25. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.






26. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






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






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






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






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






31. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






32. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






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






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






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






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






37. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






38. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






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






40. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






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






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






43. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






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






45. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






46. 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.






47. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






48. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






49. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






50. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.







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