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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.






2. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






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






4. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






5. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






6. 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.






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






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






9. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






10. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






11. Internalized self-talk.






12. 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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13. 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.






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






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






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






17. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






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 theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






20. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






21. 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






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






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






24. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






25. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






26. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






27. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






28. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






29. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






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






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






33. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.






34. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






35. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






36. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






37. 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).






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






39. 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.






40. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






41. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






42. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






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






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






45. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






46. 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.






47. How capable one actually is.






48. 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.






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






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