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






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






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






4. 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






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






6. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






7. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






8. 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 stable and intrinsic to the student.






9. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






10. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.






15. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






16. 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.






17. The study of how students learn and develop.






18. 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.






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






20. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






28. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






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






30. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.






31. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






32. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






33. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






34. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






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






36. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






37. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






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






39. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






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






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






42. 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.






43. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.






44. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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50. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.