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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. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






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






3. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






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






5. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






10. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






11. Those one observes.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






15. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






16. 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






17. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






19. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.






20. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






22. 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.






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






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






25. 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 (






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






27. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






28. 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






29. 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






30. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






31. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






38. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. 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 external to the student.






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






44. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






45. 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.






46. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






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






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






49. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






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