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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 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 (






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






8. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






9. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






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






11. 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.






12. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






13. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






14. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






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






16. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






17. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






18. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






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. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






32. 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.






33. 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






34. 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 external to the student.






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






36. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






37. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






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






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






40. Those one observes.






41. 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.






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






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






44. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






45. 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).






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






47. 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.






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






49. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






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