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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






2. Those one observes.






3. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






4. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






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






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






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






9. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as






10. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






11. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






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






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






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






15. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






16. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






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






18. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






19. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






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






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






22. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






23. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






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






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






26. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.






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






28. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






30. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






31. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






32. 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






33. The use of physical punishment.






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






35. 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.






36. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






37. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






42. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






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






44. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






45. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






46. 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






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






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






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






50. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.