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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. 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






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






3. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






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)


5. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






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






7. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






8. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






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






10. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






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






12. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






13. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






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






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






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






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






18. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






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






20. 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.






21. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






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






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






24. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






25. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






26. 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.






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






28. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






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






30. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






31. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






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






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






34. The use of physical punishment.






35. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






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






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






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






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






40. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






41. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






42. 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.






43. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






44. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






45. 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 external to the student.






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






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






48. 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).






49. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






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