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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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.






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






3. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






7. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






8. 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.






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






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






11. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






12. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






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






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






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






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






17. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for






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






19. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






20. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






21. Relating current information with previous learning.






22. 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).






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






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






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






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






27. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






29. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.






30. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. Relating new information to that previously learned.






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






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






37. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






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






39. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro






40. The study of how students learn and develop.






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






42. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






43. 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






44. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.






45. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






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






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






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






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






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