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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






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






3. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






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






5. 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.






6. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.






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






8. Those one observes.






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






10. 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.






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






12. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






13. The results one expects from different behaviors.






14. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






15. 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.






16. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.






17. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






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






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






20. 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.






21. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






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






24. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






25. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.






26. How relevant a test is at face value.






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






28. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






29. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






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






31. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






32. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






33. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






34. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






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






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






37. 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.






38. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.






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






40. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






41. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






47. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






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






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






50. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.







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