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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. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






3. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.






4. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






5. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






11. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.






12. 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).






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






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






16. 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.






17. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






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






19. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro






24. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






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






26. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






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






28. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. The total length of the class.






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






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. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






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






40. 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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41. Internalized self-talk.






42. 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






43. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.






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






45. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






46. 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.






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






48. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






49. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






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