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






2. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






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






4. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






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






6. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.






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






8. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).






9. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






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






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






12. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






13. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






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






15. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






25. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






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






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






28. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






29. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






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






31. 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.






32. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






33. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.






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






35. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






36. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.






37. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






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






39. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






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






41. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






42. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






43. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






44. 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.






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






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






47. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. 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.