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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • 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 intrinsic to the student.






2. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






3. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






4. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






6. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






7. 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.






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. 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.






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






11. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






12. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






13. 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.






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






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






16. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






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






18. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.






19. Internalized self-talk.






20. 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.






21. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






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






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






24. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






25. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






26. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






27. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






28. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






29. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






30. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






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






33. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.






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






35. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






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






37. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






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






42. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.






49. 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.






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