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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






2. The total length of the class.






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






12. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






13. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






14. 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.






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 measure of the internal consistency of a test.






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






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






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






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






21. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






23. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






24. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






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






26. 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






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






28. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






29. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






30. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.






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






32. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






33. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






34. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






35. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






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






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






38. The sensory register for auditory information.






39. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






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






42. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






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






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






46. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.






47. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






48. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






49. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.






50. 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.






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