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






2. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






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






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






6. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






7. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






9. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






10. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






11. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






12. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






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






14. Relating new information to that previously learned.






15. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






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






18. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






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






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






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






22. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






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






24. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






35. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






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






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






38. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






39. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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 intrinsic to the student.






45. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






46. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






47. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






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






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






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