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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. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






2. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






3. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






4. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






5. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






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






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






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






9. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






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






11. The use of physical punishment.






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






13. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






14. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






15. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






16. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






17. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






18. The study of how students learn and develop.






19. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






20. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






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






23. 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.






24. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






25. 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.






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






27. 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






28. 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.






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






30. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






31. 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






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






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






34. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






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 intrinsic to the student.






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






37. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






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






42. The sensory register for visual information.






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






44. 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.






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






46. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






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






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






49. 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).






50. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.