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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. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






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






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






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






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






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






7. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






8. 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






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






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






11. 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.






12. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






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






15. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






16. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






17. 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.






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. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






20. 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.






21. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






22. The total length of the class.






23. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






24. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






25. The study of the meaning behind words.






26. The inability to retrieve learned information.






27. 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






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






29. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






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






31. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






32. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






33. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






35. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






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






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






38. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






39. The study of the social aspects of language use.






40. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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.






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






47. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






48. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






49. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






50. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.