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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 social aspects of language use.






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






3. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






4. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






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






6. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






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






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






9. 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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10. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






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






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






13. 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






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






15. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






16. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.






17. The sensory register for auditory information.






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






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






20. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






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






22. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






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






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






25. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.






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






27. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.






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






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






30. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






35. 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.






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






37. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






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






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






40. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






41. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






42. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






43. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






44. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






45. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.






46. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






47. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






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






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






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