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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.

2. How capable one actually is.

3. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.

4. 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.

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

6. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. 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

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

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

15. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.

16. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.

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

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

19. The inability to retrieve learned information.

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

21. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.

22. 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.

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

24. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.

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