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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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






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






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






4. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






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






6. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.






7. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.






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






9. 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.






10. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






16. 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






17. Internalized self-talk.






18. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






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






20. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






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






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 Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






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






24. How capable one actually is.






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






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






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






28. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)

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29. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






33. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






35. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






36. The study of how students learn and develop.






37. 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 external to the student.






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






39. 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).






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






41. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






43. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.






44. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.






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






46. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






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






48. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






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






50. Those one observes.







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