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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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






2. 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.






3. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






4. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.






5. 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.






6. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






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






8. 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






9. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






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






11. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.






12. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






13. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






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






15. The study of the meaning behind words.






16. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






17. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






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






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






20. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






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






22. Relating current information with previous learning.






23. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






24. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






25. 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






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






27. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






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






29. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






30. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






31. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






32. 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.






33. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.






34. The sensory register for auditory information.






35. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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






40. 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.






41. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






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






43. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






44. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






45. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






46. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.






47. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






48. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






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






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







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