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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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






2. 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.






3. 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 (






4. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






5. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






6. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






7. The inability to retrieve learned information.






8. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






9. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.






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






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






12. How capable one actually is.






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






14. 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.






15. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






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






17. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






18. 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.






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






20. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






21. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






22. 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.






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






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






25. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






27. 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.






28. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






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






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






31. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






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






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






34. 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.






35. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






36. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.






37. 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.






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






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






40. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






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






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






43. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






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






45. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






46. 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.






47. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. 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.







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