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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. 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.






2. The study of how students learn and develop.






3. 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).






4. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






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






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






7. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






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






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






10. 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






11. 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 (






12. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






13. 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.






14. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






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. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






17. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.






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






19. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






20. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






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






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






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






24. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






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






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






28. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






29. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






30. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






31. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






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






33. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.






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






35. 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.






36. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






37. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






38. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






42. The sensory register for visual information.






43. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






44. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






45. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






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






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






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






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






50. 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)

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