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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






2. 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.






3. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






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






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






6. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






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






8. Relating new information to that previously learned.






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






12. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






13. 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.






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






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






16. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






17. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






18. 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 external to the student.






19. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






20. 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 -






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






24. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






25. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






26. The study of how students learn and develop.






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






28. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






29. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






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






31. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






33. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






34. 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






35. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.






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






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






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






40. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






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






42. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






43. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






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






45. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






46. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






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






48. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.






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






50. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.







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