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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 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.






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






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






4. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






5. 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.






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






7. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






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






9. The use of physical punishment.






10. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






16. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






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






18. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






19. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.






20. The inability to retrieve learned information.






21. 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






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






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






24. 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






25. The total length of the class.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






30. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






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






32. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






33. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






34. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






35. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






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






37. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






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






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






40. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






41. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






42. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






43. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






44. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






45. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






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






47. 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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48. 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.






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






50. 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.