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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






2. 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.






3. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.






4. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.






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






6. 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.






7. How capable one actually is.






8. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






13. 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 unstable and intrinsic to the student.






14. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






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






16. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






18. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






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






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 Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






21. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






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






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






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






25. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






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






27. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






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






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






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






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






33. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






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






35. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






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






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






38. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






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






40. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






41. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






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






43. 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.






44. The sensory register for visual information.






45. 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.






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. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






48. 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.






49. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






50. The use of physical punishment.