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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The total length of the class.






2. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






3. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






4. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






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






6. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.






7. Those one observes.






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






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






10. 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






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






12. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.






13. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






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






15. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






20. 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






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






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






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






24. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






31. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






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






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






34. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






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






36. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






37. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






38. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






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






40. 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.






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






42. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






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






44. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






45. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






46. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






47. 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






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






49. The study of the meaning behind words.






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