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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






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






4. 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.






5. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






6. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






7. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






8. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






9. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






10. Relating current information with previous learning.






11. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






12. 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






13. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






14. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






15. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






16. 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.






17. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






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






19. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






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






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






22. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






23. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






27. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






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






29. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






30. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. The study of the social aspects of language use.






36. Those one observes.






37. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






38. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






39. 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.






40. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






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






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






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






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. 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.






46. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






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






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






49. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






50. 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







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