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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






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






3. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






4. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






5. 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.






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






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






8. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.






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






16. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






17. The study of the meaning behind words.






18. 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






19. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






20. 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.






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






22. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






23. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






24. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b






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






26. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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.






35. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






36. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






37. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






38. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






39. Those one observes.






40. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)


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






42. The results one expects from different behaviors.






43. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






44. Relating new information to that previously learned.






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. 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).