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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






11. 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






12. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






13. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn






14. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






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






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






17. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






18. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






19. 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.






20. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






22. 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.






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






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






25. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).






26. 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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27. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.






28. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






29. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






30. Those one observes.






31. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






38. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as






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






40. Relating current information with previous learning.






41. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.






42. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






43. 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.






44. 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).






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






46. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






47. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






48. 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.






49. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






50. 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