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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. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






2. How capable one actually is.






3. 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.






4. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






5. 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






6. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






7. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






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






9. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






10. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






11. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






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






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






14. 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.






15. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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






21. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






22. 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.






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






24. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






25. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






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






27. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






28. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






29. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.






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






31. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






32. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






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






34. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






35. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.






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






37. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






38. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.






39. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






40. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






41. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






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






43. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






44. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






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






46. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






48. 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.






49. The results one expects from different behaviors.






50. 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.