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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. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






2. 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.






3. 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.






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






5. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






6. The study of the meaning behind words.






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






8. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






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






10. 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.






11. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






19. 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.






20. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)

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






22. 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).






23. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






24. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






25. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






26. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






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






28. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






29. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






30. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






31. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






32. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






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






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






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






36. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






37. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






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






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






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






41. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






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






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






44. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






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






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






47. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






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






49. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






50. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.