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






2. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






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






17. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






18. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






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






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






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






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






23. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






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






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






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






27. The total length of the class.






28. The study of how students learn and develop.






29. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






30. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






31. 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






32. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






33. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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34. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.






35. 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)

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36. The use of physical punishment.






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






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






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






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






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






42. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






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






47. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






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






49. 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.






50. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.