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






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






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






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






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






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






7. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






8. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






9. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






10. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.






11. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






12. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.






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






14. 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.






15. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






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






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






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






19. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for






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






21. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.






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






23. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






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






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






27. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






28. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






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






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






35. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






36. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






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






38. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






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






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






41. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






42. The total length of the class.






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






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






45. Those one observes.






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






47. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






48. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






49. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






50. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un