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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. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






2. 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






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






4. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






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






6. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






7. 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.






8. 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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9. 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.






10. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






11. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.






12. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






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






14. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






19. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






20. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






21. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






22. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






29. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






30. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. How capable one actually is.






37. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






38. The results one expects from different behaviors.






39. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






41. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






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






43. 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.






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






45. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.






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






47. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.






48. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.






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






50. 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