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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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1. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






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






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






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






5. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






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






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






8. 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).






9. 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






10. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






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






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






14. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






15. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






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






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






18. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






19. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






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






21. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






22. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






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






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






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






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






27. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






28. The total length of the class.






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






30. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.






34. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






35. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






36. The use of physical punishment.






37. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.






38. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






39. 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.






40. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






41. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






42. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






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






44. How relevant a test is at face value.






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






48. 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






49. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






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







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