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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. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






2. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






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






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






5. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






6. 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.






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






8. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






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






10. 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.






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






12. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






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






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






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






16. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.






17. 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.






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






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






20. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






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






22. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






23. 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.






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






25. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






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






27. 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






28. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






29. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






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






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






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






34. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.






35. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






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






37. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






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






39. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






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






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






42. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






43. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






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






45. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






50. Those one observes.