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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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






2. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






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






4. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






12. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






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






14. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






15. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






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






17. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






23. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).






24. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.






25. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






26. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






27. 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






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






29. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






30. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






31. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






32. The results one expects from different behaviors.






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






34. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






35. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






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






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






38. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for






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






40. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






41. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






42. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






43. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






44. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






45. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






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






47. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






48. 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 external to the student.






49. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






50. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.







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