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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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






2. 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.






3. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






4. 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.






5. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






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






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






8. The use of physical punishment.






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






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






11. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






12. 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.






13. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






14. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






15. 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).






16. 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.






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






18. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






19. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






20. 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.






21. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






22. 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






23. 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






24. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






25. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






26. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






27. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.






28. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






34. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






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






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






37. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






38. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






39. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






40. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






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






42. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






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






44. 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






45. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






47. 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).






48. 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.






49. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






50. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as







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