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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






2. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






3. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






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






5. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






7. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






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






9. 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 intrinsic to the student.






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






11. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






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






13. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






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






20. 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






21. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.






22. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






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






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






25. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






26. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






27. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






28. 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






29. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






30. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






31. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






32. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






33. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






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






35. 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.






36. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b






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






38. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






39. 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.






40. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






41. 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.






42. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






43. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






44. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






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






46. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






47. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)


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






49. 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.






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