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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. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






2. 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.






3. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






6. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






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






8. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






9. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






11. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






13. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






14. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.






15. 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.






16. How capable one actually is.






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






18. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






19. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






20. The sensory register for auditory information.






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






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. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






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






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






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






30. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






31. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






34. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






35. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






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






40. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






41. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. 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).






48. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






49. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






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