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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. Internalized self-talk.






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






3. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






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






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






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






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






8. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






9. 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.






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






11. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






12. 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






13. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






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






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






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






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






18. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.






19. 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.






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






21. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






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






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






24. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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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33. The study of the meaning behind words.






34. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






35. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






36. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






37. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






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






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






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






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






42. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






43. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






44. The study of how students learn and develop.






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






46. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






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






48. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






49. 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.






50. 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