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






2. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






3. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






4. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.






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






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






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






8. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






17. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






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






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






26. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






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






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






29. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






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






38. The study of how students learn and develop.






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






45. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






46. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






47. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






48. The inability to retrieve learned information.






49. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






50. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.