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






2. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






3. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






4. 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.






5. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






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






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






8. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






9. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






10. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






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






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






13. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






14. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






15. 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.






16. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






28. 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).






29. The study of how students learn and develop.






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






31. How relevant a test is at face value.






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






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






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






35. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






36. The sensory register for auditory information.






37. 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.






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






39. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






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






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






42. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






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






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






45. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






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






47. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






48. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






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






50. 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.