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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 ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






2. 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






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






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






6. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






7. The use of physical punishment.






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






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






10. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






11. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






12. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






20. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.






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






22. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






23. 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.






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






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






26. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






27. 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






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






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






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






31. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.






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






33. Those one observes.






34. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






35. 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.






36. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






37. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






38. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






39. The results one expects from different behaviors.






40. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






41. 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.






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. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






44. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






45. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.






46. 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.






47. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






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






49. 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.






50. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






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