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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Internalized self-talk.






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






3. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






4. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






5. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro






6. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






11. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






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






13. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.






14. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






15. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






16. 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.






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






18. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






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






20. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for






21. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.






22. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






23. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.






24. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






25. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






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






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






28. 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.






29. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






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






31. How capable one actually is.






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






33. Relating new information to that previously learned.






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






35. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.






36. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






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






38. 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).






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






40. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.






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






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






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






44. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






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






46. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






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






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






49. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.






50. 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).