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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 humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn






2. The study of the meaning behind words.






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






4. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






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






6. 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.






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






8. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






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






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






11. 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 external to the student.






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






13. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






14. How relevant a test is at face value.






15. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






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






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






18. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






20. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






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






22. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






23. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)

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24. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






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






26. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






27. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






28. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.






29. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






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






31. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






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






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






34. The study of the social aspects of language use.






35. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






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






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






38. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






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






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






41. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






42. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.






43. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






44. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






45. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






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






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






48. The results one expects from different behaviors.






49. Those one observes.






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