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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 process of learned information simply fading from memory.






2. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






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






9. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






10. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






11. 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 intrinsic to the student.






12. 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






13. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






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






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






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






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






18. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






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






20. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






22. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






24. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.






25. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






26. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro






27. 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.






28. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






29. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






30. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






31. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






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






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






34. Those one observes.






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






36. 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.






37. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






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






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






40. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






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






42. 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.






43. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






44. 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.






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






46. The sensory register for visual information.






47. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






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






49. 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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50. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.