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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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






3. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






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






5. How capable one actually is.






6. 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.






7. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






8. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






9. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






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






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






12. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






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






14. 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).






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






16. 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






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






18. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






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






20. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






21. 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






22. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






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






24. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






25. 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.






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






27. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






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






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






30. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






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






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






33. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






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






35. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






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






37. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.






38. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






39. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






40. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






41. 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.






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






43. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






44. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






45. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






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






47. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






48. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






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






50. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






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