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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 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.






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






3. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






4. 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.






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






6. 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






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






8. 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.






9. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






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






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






12. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






13. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






14. 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.






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






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






17. The sensory register for auditory information.






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






19. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






28. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






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






30. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.






31. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






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






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






34. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






35. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






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






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






38. 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.






39. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.






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






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






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






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






44. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b






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






46. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






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






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






49. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






50. 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.