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 Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






3. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






4. 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.






5. The use of physical punishment.






6. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






7. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






8. 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.






9. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






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






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






12. Relating new information to that previously learned.






13. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






14. 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.






15. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






16. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






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






18. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






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






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






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






22. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






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






26. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.






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






28. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






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






30. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






31. The total length of the class.






32. 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.






33. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






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






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






36. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b






42. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






43. 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.






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






45. 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






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






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






48. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






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






50. 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