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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. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






2. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






3. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






4. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






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






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






13. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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).






23. 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.






24. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






25. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






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






27. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






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






29. Relating current information with previous learning.






30. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






31. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






32. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






33. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






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






35. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






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






37. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






38. 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.






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






40. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






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






42. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






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






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






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






46. How capable one actually is.






47. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






49. 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.






50. 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