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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. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






8. The inability to retrieve learned information.






9. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






10. 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.






11. The study of the meaning behind words.






12. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






13. 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.






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






15. The use of physical punishment.






16. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






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






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






19. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






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






21. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






22. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.






23. 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.






24. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






25. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






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






27. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






28. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






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






30. 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.






31. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






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






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






34. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






35. The results one expects from different behaviors.






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






37. How capable one actually is.






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






50. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.