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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. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






2. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






3. How relevant a test is at face value.






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






5. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.






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






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






8. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.






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






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






11. 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.






12. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






13. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






14. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






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






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






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






18. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






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






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






21. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






22. The results one expects from different behaviors.






23. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






24. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






25. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






29. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






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






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






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






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






34. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






35. 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.






36. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






37. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






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






39. 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.






40. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






41. 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.






42. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






43. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






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






45. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






46. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






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






48. 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.






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






50. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.