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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. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






2. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






3. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






4. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. The total length of the class.






10. 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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11. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






13. 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.






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 Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






18. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






19. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






20. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






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






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






23. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






24. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






25. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






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






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






28. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.






29. 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.






30. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






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






32. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






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






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






35. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






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






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






38. 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.






39. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






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






41. 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).






42. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






44. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






45. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






46. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






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






48. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)

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






50. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as