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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. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






2. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






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






4. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






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






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






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






15. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






16. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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).






21. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






22. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






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






24. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).






30. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






31. 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).






32. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.






33. 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.






34. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as






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






36. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






37. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






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






39. 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.






40. 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).






41. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






42. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






43. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






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






45. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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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