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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 degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






2. 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.






3. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






4. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






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






6. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






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






13. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






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






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






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






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






18. Relating current information with previous learning.






19. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






20. 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.






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






22. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






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






24. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






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






27. Internalized self-talk.






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






29. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






30. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






31. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






32. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






33. 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






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






35. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






40. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.






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






42. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.






43. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






44. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






45. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






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






47. The results one expects from different behaviors.






48. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






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






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







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