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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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






2. 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).






3. 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.






4. Relating current information with previous learning.






5. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






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






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






8. 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 stable and intrinsic to the student.






9. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






10. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






21. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






22. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






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






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






25. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






26. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.






27. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






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






29. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






30. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






31. 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 (






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






33. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.






34. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






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






36. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






37. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.






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






39. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






40. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






41. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






42. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






43. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






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






45. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.






46. The total length of the class.






47. The sensory register for visual information.






48. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






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






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







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