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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. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






2. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






3. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






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






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






6. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






7. 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.






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






9. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






10. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






11. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.






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






13. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






14. 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.






15. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.






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






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






18. 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.






19. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






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






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






22. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






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






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






25. 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.






26. How capable one actually is.






27. Internalized self-talk.






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






29. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






30. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






31. The use of physical punishment.






32. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






33. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






34. 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.






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






36. 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






37. The sensory register for visual information.






38. 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






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






40. Relating new information to that previously learned.






41. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






42. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






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






44. 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.






45. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






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






47. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.






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






49. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






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