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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 study of the meaning behind words.






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






3. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






4. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






5. The total length of the class.






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






7. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






8. 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.






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






10. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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11. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






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






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






14. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






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






19. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






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






21. 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.






22. 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






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






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






25. Relating new information to that previously learned.






26. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






27. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.






28. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






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






30. Those one observes.






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






32. How relevant a test is at face value.






33. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






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






35. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






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






37. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






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






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






40. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






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






42. 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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43. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






48. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






49. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






50. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.