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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. Those one observes.






4. 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.






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






6. 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).






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






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






9. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






10. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






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






12. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






13. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






14. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






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






16. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






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






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






19. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






20. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






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






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






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






24. How capable one actually is.






25. 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.






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






27. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






28. The inability to retrieve learned information.






29. The sensory register for auditory information.






30. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






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






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






33. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.






34. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






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






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






37. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






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






39. 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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40. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.






41. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






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






43. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






44. Internalized self-talk.






45. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






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






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






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






49. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






50. The smallest meaningful units in a language.







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