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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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1. 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).






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






3. 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.






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






5. Those one observes.






6. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






12. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






13. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






14. 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






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






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






17. 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).






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






19. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.






20. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.






21. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.






22. The sensory register for visual information.






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






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






25. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






26. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






27. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






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






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






30. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






31. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






32. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






33. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






34. 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.






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






36. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






37. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






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






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






40. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






41. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






42. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






43. 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.






44. 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






45. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






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






47. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






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






49. 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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50. 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