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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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






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






3. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






4. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.






5. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






6. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






7. 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






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






9. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






10. 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).






11. 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).






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






13. 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.






14. 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 (






15. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






16. 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).






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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 unstable and intrinsic to the student.






22. 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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23. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






24. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






25. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






26. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






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






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






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






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






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






32. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.






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






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






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






36. The use of physical punishment.






37. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






38. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






39. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






40. 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






41. 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






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






43. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.






44. 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






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






46. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






47. 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






48. 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.






49. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






50. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.







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