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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. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






2. 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.






3. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






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






5. The sensory register for visual information.






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






7. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






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






9. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






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






11. 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.






12. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






13. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.






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






15. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






16. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






17. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






18. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






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






20. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






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






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






23. 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.






24. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






25. The study of how students learn and develop.






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






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






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






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






30. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






36. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.






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






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






39. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






40. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






48. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






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






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