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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






2. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






4. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






5. 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.






6. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






7. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






8. Internalized self-talk.






9. 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.






10. 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 stable and intrinsic to the student.






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






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






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






14. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






15. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






16. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






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






18. 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.






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






20. Relating current information with previous learning.






21. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






22. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






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






24. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






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






26. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






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






28. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






29. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.






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






31. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






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






33. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






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






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






36. 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.






37. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






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






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






41. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






42. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






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






44. The sensory register for visual information.






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






46. 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.






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






48. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






49. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






50. 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.







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