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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 measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






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






3. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






4. 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.






5. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






6. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






7. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






8. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






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






10. 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 (






11. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






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






13. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






14. 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.






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






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






17. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






18. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






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






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






21. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






22. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






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






24. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






25. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






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






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






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






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






30. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






31. 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






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






33. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






34. 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 external to the student.






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






36. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






37. 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.






38. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






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






40. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






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






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






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






44. 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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45. 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.






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






47. 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.






48. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






49. 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






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