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






2. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






3. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.






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






5. 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






6. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.






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






8. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






9. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






10. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






11. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. 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.






21. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. Relating new information to that previously learned.






27. 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.






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






29. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






30. 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.






31. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






32. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






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






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






35. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






36. The study of how students learn and develop.






37. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






38. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






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






40. 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.






41. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






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






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






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






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






46. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro






47. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






48. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






49. 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






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