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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. How capable one actually is.






2. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






3. The inability to retrieve learned information.






4. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






5. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






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






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






8. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






15. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






16. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






17. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






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






19. 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.






20. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






21. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as






22. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.






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






24. 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.






25. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






26. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






27. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






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






29. 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.






30. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






31. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






32. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






33. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for






34. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






35. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






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






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






38. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






39. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






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






41. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






42. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






43. 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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44. 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.






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






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






49. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






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