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






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






3. 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.






4. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






5. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






6. 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.






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






8. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






9. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






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






11. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






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






13. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






14. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






15. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






16. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






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






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






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






21. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






22. 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 unstable and intrinsic to the student.






23. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






24. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






25. 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.






26. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.






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






28. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






29. 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






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






31. The total length of the class.






32. 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).






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






34. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






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






36. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






37. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






38. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






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






40. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






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






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






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






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






45. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






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






47. 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






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. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






50. 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