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






2. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






3. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






4. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.






5. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






6. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






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






8. 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.






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






10. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






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






12. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.






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






14. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






15. 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).






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






17. 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.






18. 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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19. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.






20. 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.






21. How relevant a test is at face value.






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






23. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






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






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






26. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






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






33. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






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






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






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






37. The sensory register for visual information.






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






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






40. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






41. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






42. The study of the social aspects of language use.






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






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






45. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






46. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






47. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






48. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






49. 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.






50. 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.