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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. 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).






2. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






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






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






5. 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.






6. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






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






8. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






9. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






10. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






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






17. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






18. The study of the social aspects of language use.






19. 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.






20. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






21. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






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






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






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






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






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






27. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






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






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






30. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






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






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






33. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.






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






35. 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.






36. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






37. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






38. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






39. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






40. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






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






42. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






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






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






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






46. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






47. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






48. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






49. 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.






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