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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. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






2. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






15. 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.






16. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






17. 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.






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






19. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






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






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






22. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






23. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






24. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






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






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






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






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






29. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. Internalized self-talk.






35. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






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






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






38. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






39. 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






40. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






41. 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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42. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






43. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






44. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






45. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






46. 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.






47. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






48. 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.






49. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.






50. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.