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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 innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.






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






3. 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.






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






5. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






6. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






7. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).






8. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






9. 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.






10. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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11. The use of physical punishment.






12. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






13. 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






14. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






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






16. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






17. Internalized self-talk.






18. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






19. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






20. 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 intrinsic to the student.






21. 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.






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






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






24. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






25. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






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






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






28. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






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






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






31. Relating new information to that previously learned.






32. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






33. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






34. 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.






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






36. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






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






44. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






45. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






46. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






47. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro






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. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






50. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.