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






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






3. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






4. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






5. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






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






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






8. 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






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






10. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






11. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






17. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






18. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






19. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.






20. 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






21. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






22. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.






23. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






24. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.






25. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






26. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






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






28. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for






29. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.






30. 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






31. 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.






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






33. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






34. 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 stable and intrinsic to the student.






35. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






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






37. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






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






39. 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






40. Internalized self-talk.






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






42. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






43. The inability to retrieve learned information.






44. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






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






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






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






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






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






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