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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. The total length of the class.






2. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






3. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






4. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






12. 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.






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






14. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






15. 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






16. 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.






17. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






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






19. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






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






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






22. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






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






31. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






32. 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).






33. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






34. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






35. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






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






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






38. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






40. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






41. 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.






42. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






43. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






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






45. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






46. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






47. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.






48. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






49. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






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