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






2. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






4. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






5. The sensory register for visual information.






6. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






12. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






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






14. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






16. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






17. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






18. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






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






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






21. Relating current information with previous learning.






22. 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.






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






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






25. 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






26. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.






27. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






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






29. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






30. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






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






32. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






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






34. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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






36. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






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






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






39. 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.






40. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






42. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






44. 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.






45. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






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






47. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






48. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






49. 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.






50. 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).