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






2. Those one observes.






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






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






5. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






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






7. 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.






8. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






9. 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.






10. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






11. Relating new information to that previously learned.






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






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






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






15. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






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






17. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






18. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.






19. 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.






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






21. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






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






23. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






25. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






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






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






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






29. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






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






31. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






32. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






33. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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 intrinsic to the student.






39. The study of how students learn and develop.






40. 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.






41. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.






42. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).






43. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






44. The use of physical punishment.






45. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






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






47. The study of the meaning behind words.






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






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






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