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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






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






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






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






5. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.






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






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






8. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






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






10. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






11. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






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






13. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






14. 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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15. 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 intrinsic to the student.






16. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






17. 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.






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






19. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






20. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






21. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.






22. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






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






24. 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.






25. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






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






27. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






28. 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






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






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






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






32. Internalized self-talk.






33. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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.






38. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






45. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






46. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






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






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






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






50. The sensory register for auditory information.