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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. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






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






3. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






4. 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






5. 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.






6. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






7. The sensory register for visual information.






8. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






9. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






10. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.






11. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






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






13. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






14. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






15. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






16. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.






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






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






19. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.






20. 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.






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






22. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






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






24. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






25. 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.






26. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






27. Relating new information to that previously learned.






28. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






29. 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.






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






31. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.






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






33. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






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






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






36. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






37. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






39. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






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






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






42. 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.






43. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






44. 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






45. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






46. 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.






47. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






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






49. Relating current information with previous learning.






50. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.