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






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






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






4. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






5. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






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






7. 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.






8. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






9. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






10. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






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






16. The inability to retrieve learned information.






17. 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






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






19. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






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






21. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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 (






27. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






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






29. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






30. 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.






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






32. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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33. 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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34. 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.






35. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






36. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl

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37. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






38. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






39. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






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






41. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.






42. 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.






43. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






44. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






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






46. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






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






48. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






49. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.






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