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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • 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 testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






2. 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.






3. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






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 stable and external to the student.






5. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






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






7. 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).






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






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






10. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






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






12. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






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






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






15. 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






16. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






17. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






18. 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.






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






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






21. The sensory register for visual information.






22. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






23. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.






24. 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 -






25. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






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






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






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






29. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






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






31. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






40. Internalized self-talk.






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






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






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






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






45. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






46. 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.






47. The inability to retrieve learned information.






48. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.






49. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






50. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.