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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. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






2. Relating new information to that previously learned.






3. 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.






4. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.






5. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).






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






7. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






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






9. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






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






11. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






12. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






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






14. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






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






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






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






18. Those one observes.






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






24. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. 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






32. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






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






34. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






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






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






37. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






38. 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.






39. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






40. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






41. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






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






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






47. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






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






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






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