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






2. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






3. The sensory register for visual information.






4. 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.






5. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






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






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






8. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






9. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.






10. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






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






12. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






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






14. 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.






15. Those one observes.






16. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






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






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






19. 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






20. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






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






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






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






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






25. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






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






27. 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.






28. 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






29. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






30. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






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






32. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






33. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






34. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






35. The study of how students learn and develop.






36. 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.






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






38. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






39. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.






40. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






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






42. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






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






44. 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.






45. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






46. 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 intrinsic to the student.






47. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.






48. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.






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






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