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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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






2. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






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






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






15. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






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






17. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






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






19. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.






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






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






22. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






23. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






31. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






32. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






33. 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).






34. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






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






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






37. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






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






39. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






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






43. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.






44. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






50. 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 (







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