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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






2. 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.






3. The inability to retrieve learned information.






4. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






5. The use of physical punishment.






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






7. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






9. 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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10. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






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






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






14. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






15. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






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






17. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






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






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






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






21. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






22. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






27. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.






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






29. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.






30. 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






31. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.






32. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






33. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






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






35. The results one expects from different behaviors.






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






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






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






39. Relating new information to that previously learned.






40. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






41. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.






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






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






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






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






46. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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47. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






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






49. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






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