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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 measure of the internal consistency of a test.






2. 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).






3. 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






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






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






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






7. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






8. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






9. 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






10. How relevant a test is at face value.






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






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






13. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.






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






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






16. 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.






17. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






18. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






19. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






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






21. 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.






22. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






23. The total length of the class.






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






25. 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).






26. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






27. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






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






29. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.






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






31. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






32. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






33. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






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






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






36. 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






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






38. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






39. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






40. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






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






46. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






47. 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.






48. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






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






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