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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






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






3. 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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4. 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






5. 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






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






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






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






9. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






10. Those one observes.






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






12. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






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






14. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






15. 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.






16. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






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






18. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






19. 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.






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. Internalized self-talk.






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






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






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






27. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.






28. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






29. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






30. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






38. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






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






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






41. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






42. 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.






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






44. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).






45. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






46. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






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






48. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






49. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






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