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






2. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






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






4. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






5. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






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






7. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






8. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






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






10. 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.






11. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.






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






13. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






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






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






16. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






17. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






18. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.






19. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






20. 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.






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






22. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






23. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






24. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






25. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






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






27. 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.






28. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






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






30. 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.






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






32. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






33. 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.






34. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.






35. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






36. 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).






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






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






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






40. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






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






42. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






43. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






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






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






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






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






48. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






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






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