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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






3. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






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






5. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.






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






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






8. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






9. 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).






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






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






12. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






13. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






14. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






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






16. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






17. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






18. 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.






19. The total length of the class.






20. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






21. 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.






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






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






24. 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.






25. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






26. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






27. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






28. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






35. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






36. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn






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






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






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






40. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






41. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






42. 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






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






44. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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45. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






46. 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.






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






48. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






49. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






50. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.