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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






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






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






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






5. The study of the meaning behind words.






6. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.






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






8. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






9. 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






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






11. 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.






12. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.






13. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






14. The total length of the class.






15. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






16. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






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






18. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






19. 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






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






21. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






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






23. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






24. 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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25. 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






26. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






27. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






28. 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.






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






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






31. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






32. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






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






34. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






35. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






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






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






38. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






39. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






40. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






41. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






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






43. 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 -






44. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






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






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






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






48. How capable one actually is.






49. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






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







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