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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






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






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






4. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






5. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






6. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






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






8. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






9. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






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






11. 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.






12. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






13. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






14. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






15. 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.






16. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






17. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






18. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.






19. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






25. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






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






27. Internalized self-talk.






28. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.






29. The sensory register for visual information.






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






31. The use of physical punishment.






32. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






33. 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.






34. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






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






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






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






38. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro






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






40. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






41. 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.






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






43. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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