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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






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






3. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






4. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






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






6. 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.






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






8. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.






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






10. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






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






12. Relating current information with previous learning.






13. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






14. The use of physical punishment.






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






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






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






18. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






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






20. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






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






22. Those one observes.






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






24. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






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






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






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






28. 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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29. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






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






31. 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.






32. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






33. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






34. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.






35. 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.






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






37. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






39. 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






40. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






41. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






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






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






44. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






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






46. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






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






48. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






49. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






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