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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. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






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






3. 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






4. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






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






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






7. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






8. 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.






9. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






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






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






12. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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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17. 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






18. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






19. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






20. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






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






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






23. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






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






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






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






28. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






29. 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






30. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






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






33. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






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






35. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






36. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






37. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






38. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






39. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.






40. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






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






42. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






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






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






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






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






47. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






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






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