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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. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






3. 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.






4. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b






10. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






11. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






12. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






13. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.






14. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






15. How capable one actually is.






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






17. 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






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






19. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






20. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






21. 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).






22. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






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






24. The total length of the class.






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






26. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






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






28. 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






29. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






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






31. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.






32. 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.






33. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






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






35. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






36. Those one observes.






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






38. 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.






39. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






40. 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






41. 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.






42. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






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






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






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






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






47. The sensory register for auditory information.






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






49. 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).






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