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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






3. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






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






5. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






6. 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.






7. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






8. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






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






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






11. Internalized self-talk.






12. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






13. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






14. The study of the meaning behind words.






15. 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.






16. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






17. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






18. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






19. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






20. 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.






21. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






22. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






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






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






25. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






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






27. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






28. 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).






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






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






34. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






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






36. The total length of the class.






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






38. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






39. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






40. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.






46. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






47. 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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48. 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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49. 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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50. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.