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






2. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.






3. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






9. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






10. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






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






12. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






13. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






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






15. The sensory register for visual information.






16. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






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






18. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






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






20. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






21. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






22. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






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






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






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






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






27. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






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






29. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






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






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






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






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






34. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






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






36. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






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






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






39. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.






40. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






41. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






42. 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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43. 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.






44. 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.






45. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






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






47. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






48. 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.






49. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






50. 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.