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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






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






3. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.






4. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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.






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






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. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






12. 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






13. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






19. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






20. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






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






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






23. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.






24. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






25. 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.






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.






36. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






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






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






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






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






41. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






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






43. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






44. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






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






46. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






47. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






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






49. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






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