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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 translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






2. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






3. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).






4. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






5. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






6. 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.






7. 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).






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






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






10. 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.






11. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






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






13. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






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






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






22. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






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






24. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.






25. 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.






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






27. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






28. The study of the meaning behind words.






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






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






42. 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.






43. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






44. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






45. 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.






46. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






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






48. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.






49. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






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