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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 type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






2. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.






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






4. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






5. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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






10. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






11. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






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






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






14. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






21. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






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






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






24. The results one expects from different behaviors.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






32. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






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






34. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






35. 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).






36. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






37. 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).






38. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






39. 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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40. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






41. 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.






42. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






43. 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






44. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






45. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






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






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






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






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






50. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.