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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. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






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






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






4. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






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






6. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






7. 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.






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






9. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






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






11. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.






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






13. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






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






15. 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 external to the student.






16. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






17. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






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






19. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






20. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






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






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






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






24. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






25. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






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






27. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






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






29. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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30. 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).






31. The sensory register for visual information.






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






36. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






37. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






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






39. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






40. The total length of the class.






41. 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).






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






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






44. 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.






45. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






46. 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 stable and external to the student.






47. 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.






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






49. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






50. 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.