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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. 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






2. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






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






5. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






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






7. 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






8. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.






9. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






10. The sensory register for auditory information.






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






12. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






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






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






15. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






16. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.






17. Those one observes.






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 Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






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






20. 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.






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






22. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






28. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






29. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.






30. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






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






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






34. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.






35. 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.






36. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






37. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






38. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






39. 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.






40. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






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






42. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






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






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






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