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






2. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






3. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






4. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).






5. 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 external to the student.






6. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.






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






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






10. 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.






11. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






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






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






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






16. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






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






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






19. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






20. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






21. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






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






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






24. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






30. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






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






32. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






33. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






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






35. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






37. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






43. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.






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






45. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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).






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







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