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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. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






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






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






4. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






6. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






7. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






8. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)

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9. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






10. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






11. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






12. 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.






13. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






14. 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






15. 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 external to the student.






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






17. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






18. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






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






20. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






21. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






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






23. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






24. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






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






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






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






28. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






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






30. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






38. 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.






39. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






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






41. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






42. 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.






43. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






44. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






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






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






47. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






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






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






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