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






2. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






3. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






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






5. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.






6. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






7. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






8. 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






9. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






12. 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.






13. The study of the meaning behind words.






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






15. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






16. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.






17. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.






18. 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.






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






20. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






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






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






23. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






24. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






25. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






26. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






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






28. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






29. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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30. 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.






31. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






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






33. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)

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






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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. The use of physical punishment.






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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






50. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.