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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






2. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






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






4. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






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






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






7. 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.






8. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






9. 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 -






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






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






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






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






14. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






15. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.






16. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






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






18. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






19. 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.






20. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. The sensory register for auditory information.






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






27. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






28. 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).






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






30. 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.






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






36. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






37. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)

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






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






40. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.






41. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






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






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






44. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






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






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






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






49. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






50. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.







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