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






2. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






3. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






4. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






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






6. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






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






8. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






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






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






11. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






12. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






13. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






14. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.






15. 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.






16. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






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






18. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






19. The study of the meaning behind words.






20. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






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






22. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






23. 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






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






25. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






26. 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).






27. 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.






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






29. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.






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






31. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






32. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






33. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






34. The inability to retrieve learned information.






35. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






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






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






38. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






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






40. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






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






42. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






43. Internalized self-talk.






44. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.






45. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






46. The study of how students learn and develop.






47. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






48. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






49. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






50. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.