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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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






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






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






9. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






10. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






11. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






12. 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.






13. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






14. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






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






22. 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.






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






24. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






25. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






26. Internalized self-talk.






27. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






34. Those one observes.






35. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






36. The use of physical punishment.






37. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






38. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






39. 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.






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






41. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.






42. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






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






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






45. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






46. 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.






47. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






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






49. 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 (






50. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.