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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






2. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






3. Internalized self-talk.






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






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






6. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






7. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






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






9. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






10. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






11. The study of the meaning behind words.






12. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.






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






14. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






15. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






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






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






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






19. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






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






21. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






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






23. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






24. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.






25. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






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






27. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






28. 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.






29. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






30. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






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






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






33. 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.






34. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






35. 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.






36. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






37. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






38. 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.






39. The total length of the class.






40. 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.






41. The sensory register for auditory information.






42. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






43. 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






44. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






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






46. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






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






48. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






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


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