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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. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






2. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






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






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






6. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.






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






8. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.






9. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






10. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






11. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






12. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






13. 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).






14. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






15. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






16. 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






17. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






18. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






19. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






21. 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.






22. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






23. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






24. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






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






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. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






41. 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.






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. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






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






45. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






46. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






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