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






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






3. 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.






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






5. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






6. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






7. How relevant a test is at face value.






8. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






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






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






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






17. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.






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






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






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






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






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






23. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.






24. 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.






25. 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 (






26. 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.






27. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






28. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






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






30. 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






31. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






32. 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.






33. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






34. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






35. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






36. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






37. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






38. The study of the meaning behind words.






39. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






40. The results one expects from different behaviors.






41. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.






42. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






43. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






44. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.