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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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1. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






2. 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.






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






4. 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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5. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






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






7. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






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






9. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






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






11. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






12. The total length of the class.






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






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






15. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






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






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






18. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






19. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






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






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






22. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






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






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






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






27. Internalized self-talk.






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






29. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






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






31. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as






42. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






43. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






44. 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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45. 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).






46. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






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






48. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






49. 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






50. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.