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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 behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.






2. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






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






4. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






5. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






7. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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






12. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






13. 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 -






14. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






15. 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.






16. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






17. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






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






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






20. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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21. 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.






22. 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).






23. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






24. Relating new information to that previously learned.






25. How relevant a test is at face value.






26. The total length of the class.






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






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






29. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






30. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






31. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






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






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






34. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






46. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






47. 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.






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






49. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.






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