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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. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






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






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






4. 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






5. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






6. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






7. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.






8. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






9. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






10. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






11. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






12. 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.






13. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






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






15. 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.






16. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






17. The study of how students learn and develop.






18. 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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






27. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






28. 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.






29. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.






30. Those one observes.






31. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






32. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






33. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.






34. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.






35. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






36. 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.






37. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. The inability to retrieve learned information.






44. 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.






45. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






46. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






47. 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






48. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






49. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






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