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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. 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.






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






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






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






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






6. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






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






8. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






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






10. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn






11. 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.






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






13. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.






14. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






15. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).






16. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






17. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






18. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






22. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






23. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






24. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






25. Those one observes.






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






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






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






29. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






30. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






31. 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






32. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.






33. 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.






34. The use of physical punishment.






35. 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.






36. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






37. 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.






38. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






42. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






43. 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






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






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






46. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.






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






48. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






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






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.