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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 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.






2. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






3. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






4. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






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






6. 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.






7. The study of the social aspects of language use.






8. 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.






9. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






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






11. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






12. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






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






14. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






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






16. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






17. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.






18. Relating current information with previous learning.






19. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






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






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






23. 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.






24. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.






25. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






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






27. 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






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






29. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






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






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






33. The use of physical punishment.






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






35. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






36. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






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






38. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.






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






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






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






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. 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.






44. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






45. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.






46. 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.






47. Relating new information to that previously learned.






48. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






49. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






50. 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.