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






2. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






3. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






8. The sensory register for visual information.






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






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






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






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






13. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.






14. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






15. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.






16. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.






17. 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.






18. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






19. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






20. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






21. 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






22. 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.






23. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






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






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






26. 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.






27. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






28. 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.






29. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.






30. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






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






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






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






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






35. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






36. How capable one actually is.






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






38. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






39. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






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






41. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.






42. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






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






44. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






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






46. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






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






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






49. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






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