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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.






2. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






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






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






6. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






7. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.






8. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






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






10. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






11. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro






12. The study of the meaning behind words.






13. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






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






15. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






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






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






26. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.






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






28. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






29. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






30. The study of how students learn and develop.






31. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






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






33. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth






34. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






35. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






36. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






37. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






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






39. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






46. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






47. 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.






48. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






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






50. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.