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






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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.






6. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






7. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






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






9. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






10. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






11. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






12. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






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






14. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.






15. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






16. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






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 behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






20. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






21. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






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






23. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






24. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






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






26. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.






27. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






28. 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.






29. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






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






31. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.






32. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






33. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.






34. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






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






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






37. 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 external to the student.






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. 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






42. 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






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






44. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.