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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. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






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






3. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.






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






5. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






6. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






7. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






8. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






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






10. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






11. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






12. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






13. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






14. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






15. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.






16. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






17. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






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






24. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






25. 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






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






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






28. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






29. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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30. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






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






32. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






33. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






34. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






35. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






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






37. 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.






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






39. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






41. 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






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






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






44. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






45. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






46. 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






47. Those one observes.






48. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






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