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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. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






2. The use of physical punishment.






3. 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.






4. 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






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






6. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






7. 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






8. 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.






9. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






10. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






11. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






12. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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13. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.






14. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






15. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






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






17. 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 unstable and external to the student.






18. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






19. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






20. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






21. 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.






22. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






23. 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






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






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






26. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






27. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






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






29. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.






30. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






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






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






33. The study of how students learn and develop.






34. How capable one actually is.






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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.






39. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






44. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






45. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






46. 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.






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






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






49. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






50. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.