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






2. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






3. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






4. 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.






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






6. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






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






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






9. 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.






10. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






11. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






13. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






14. 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.






15. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






16. The sensory register for visual information.






17. How relevant a test is at face value.






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






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






25. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






26. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






27. 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.






28. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






29. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






30. Those one observes.






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






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






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






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






35. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






36. 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.






37. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






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






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






44. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






45. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






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






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






48. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






49. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






50. 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.