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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






2. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






3. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






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






5. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






6. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






7. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






8. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






9. Those one observes.






10. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






11. 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






12. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






13. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






14. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






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






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






17. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






18. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






19. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






20. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






21. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






22. 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.






23. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






24. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






25. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






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






27. 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.






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






29. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.






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






31. 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






32. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






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






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






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






36. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






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






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






40. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






41. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






42. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






43. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






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






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






46. 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 intrinsic to the student.






47. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






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






49. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






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