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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






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






6. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






14. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






15. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






16. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






17. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






18. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






19. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






20. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






21. 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.






22. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






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






24. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






25. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.






26. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






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






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






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






30. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






31. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






32. 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.






33. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.






34. 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.






35. Internalized self-talk.






36. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.






37. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






38. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






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






40. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






41. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






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






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






44. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.






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






46. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






47. The total length of the class.






48. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






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






50. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.







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