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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 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.






2. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






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






4. 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.






5. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






6. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.






7. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






8. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






9. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






10. The study of the social aspects of language use.






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






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






13. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






14. Relating new information to that previously learned.






15. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






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






17. 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.






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






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. The total length of the class.






21. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






22. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






28. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.






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






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






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






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






34. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






35. 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.






36. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






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






38. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






39. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






40. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






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






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






43. 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).






44. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






45. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






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






47. 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.






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






49. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.






50. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.







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