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






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






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






4. 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 unstable and intrinsic to the student.






5. 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.






6. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






7. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






8. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






16. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






17. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






18. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






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






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






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






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






23. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.






24. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






25. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






26. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






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






28. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






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






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






31. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






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






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






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






35. The use of physical punishment.






36. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






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






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






39. The sensory register for auditory information.






40. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






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






42. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






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






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






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






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






47. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






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






49. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






50. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.