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






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






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






4. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






5. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






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






7. 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.






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






9. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn






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






11. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






12. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






13. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






14. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






16. The use of physical punishment.






17. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.






18. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






19. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).






25. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






26. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






27. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






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






30. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






31. 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






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






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






35. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






36. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






37. 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).






38. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






39. 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






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






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






43. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






44. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






45. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






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






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






48. 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.






49. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






50. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.