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






2. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






3. 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.






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






5. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






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






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






8. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






9. 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.






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






11. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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).






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






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






32. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. The total length of the class.






37. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






38. 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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. The study of how students learn and develop.






43. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






50. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.