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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






2. 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.






3. 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.






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






5. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






6. 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.






7. The study of the meaning behind words.






8. The sensory register for visual information.






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






10. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






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






12. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






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






14. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.






15. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






16. Internalized self-talk.






17. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






18. 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






19. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






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






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






27. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for






28. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






29. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






30. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






31. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






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






33. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






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






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






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






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






38. 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).






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






40. 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






41. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






42. 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






43. The total length of the class.






44. Relating new information to that previously learned.






45. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.






46. 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 -






47. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






48. 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.






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






50. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.