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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. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






2. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






4. How relevant a test is at face value.






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






6. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






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






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






9. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






10. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.






11. 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.






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






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






14. The total length of the class.






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






16. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






17. How capable one actually is.






18. 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






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






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






21. 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






22. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






23. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






24. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






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






26. The inability to retrieve learned information.






27. 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.






28. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






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






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






32. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






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






34. 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.






35. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






36. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






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






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






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






40. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






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






42. The study of how students learn and develop.






43. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






44. 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






45. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






46. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






47. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.






48. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






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






50. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.