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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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






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






3. 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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4. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






5. 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).






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






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






8. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. The study of the social aspects of language use.






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






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






18. The use of physical punishment.






19. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






20. 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.






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






22. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






28. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






29. The results one expects from different behaviors.






30. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






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






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






33. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






34. Those one observes.






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






36. 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).






37. 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).






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






39. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.






40. 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.






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






42. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






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






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






46. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






47. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






48. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






49. 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.






50. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






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