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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. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






2. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






3. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






4. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






5. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






6. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






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






8. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






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






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






11. 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).






12. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






13. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






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






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






16. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






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






18. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






19. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






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






21. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






22. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






23. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






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






25. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






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






27. 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






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






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






30. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






31. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






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






33. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






35. 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.






36. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






37. The study of how students learn and develop.






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






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






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






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






42. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






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






44. 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.






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






46. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






47. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






48. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






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






50. 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.