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






2. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






3. 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






4. 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.






5. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)

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






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






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






9. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






10. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






11. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






16. 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.






17. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






18. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






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






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






21. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






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






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






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






25. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.






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






27. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






28. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






29. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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 stable and external to the student.






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






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






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






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






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






39. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






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






41. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






42. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






43. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.






44. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.






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






46. 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.






47. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






48. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






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






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