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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. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






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






3. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






4. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






5. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






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






7. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






8. 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.






9. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






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






12. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






13. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






14. 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).






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






16. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






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






22. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






23. The total length of the class.






24. 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






25. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






31. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.






32. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






33. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






34. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






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






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 ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






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






43. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.






44. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






45. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.






46. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






47. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






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






49. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






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