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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. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






2. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






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






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






5. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






6. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






7. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






8. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






9. The study of the meaning behind words.






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






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






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






21. The results one expects from different behaviors.






22. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






23. 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 -






24. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






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






26. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






27. 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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28. 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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29. 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).






30. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






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






32. 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






33. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






34. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






36. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






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






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






39. The total length of the class.






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






41. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.






42. 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.






43. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






44. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






45. 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.






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






47. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






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






49. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






50. 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.