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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. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






2. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






3. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






4. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






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






6. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






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






8. 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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9. 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.






10. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






11. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






12. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






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. 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.






16. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






17. 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.






18. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






19. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






20. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






21. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






22. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






23. 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.






24. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






25. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






26. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






27. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






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






29. 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.






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






31. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






32. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






33. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.






34. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






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






36. The use of physical punishment.






37. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






38. 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).






39. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






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






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






42. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






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






44. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






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






46. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






47. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






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






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






50. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.