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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 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.






2. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






10. 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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11. 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.






12. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






13. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






14. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






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






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






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






18. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






19. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.






20. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






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






22. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






23. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






24. The use of physical punishment.






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






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






27. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






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






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






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






31. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






32. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b






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






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






35. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






36. The inability to retrieve learned information.






37. 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.






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






39. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






40. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






41. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






42. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






43. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






44. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






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






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






47. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






48. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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49. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






50. 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.