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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






3. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






4. 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.






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






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






7. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






13. Internalized self-talk.






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






15. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






16. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






17. How capable one actually is.






18. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






19. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






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






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






22. 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.






23. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






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






25. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






26. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






28. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






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






30. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.






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






32. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






33. 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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34. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






41. The study of how students learn and develop.






42. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






43. 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).






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






45. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






46. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






47. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






48. 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






49. 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.






50. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.