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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 belief that one gender is better than the other.






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






3. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






4. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






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






7. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






8. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






9. 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.






10. Those one observes.






11. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






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






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






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






15. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






19. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






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






21. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






22. 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






23. The total length of the class.






24. 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.






25. 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






26. 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






27. How relevant a test is at face value.






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






29. 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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30. 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.






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






32. 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






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






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






35. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






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






37. 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 (






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






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






40. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






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






42. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






43. The sensory register for visual information.






44. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






45. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






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






47. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.






48. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






49. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






50. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.