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






2. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






3. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






4. 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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5. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






6. The sensory register for auditory information.






7. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






8. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






9. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






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






11. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. The results one expects from different behaviors.






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






19. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






20. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






21. 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 stable and external to the student.






22. 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.






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






24. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






25. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






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






27. 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.






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






29. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






30. 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.






31. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






32. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






33. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






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






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






36. 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






37. The total length of the class.






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






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






40. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






46. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






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






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






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






50. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.