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






2. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






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






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






5. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






6. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






7. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






8. The inability to retrieve learned information.






9. The use of physical punishment.






10. 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.






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






12. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






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






14. 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.






15. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






16. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.






17. 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






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






19. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






20. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






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






22. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






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






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






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






26. 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






27. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






28. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






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






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






31. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






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






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






34. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






35. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






36. Those one observes.






37. 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.






38. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






39. 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).






40. The study of how students learn and develop.






41. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






42. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






43. Internalized self-talk.






44. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






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






46. How relevant a test is at face value.






47. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






48. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






49. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.






50. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b