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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






2. Relating current information with previous learning.






3. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






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






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






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






7. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






8. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






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






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






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






12. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






13. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






14. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






15. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






16. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






17. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






19. 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.






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






21. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






22. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






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






24. 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).






25. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






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






27. The results one expects from different behaviors.






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






29. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.






30. The study of the meaning behind words.






31. 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






32. 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).






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






34. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






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 unstable and external to the student.






36. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






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






38. Relating new information to that previously learned.






39. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.






44. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






45. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.






46. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b






47. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






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






49. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.






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