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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. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






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






3. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






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






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






11. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






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






13. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






14. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






15. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






16. 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.






17. The total length of the class.






18. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






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






20. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






21. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






22. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






23. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






24. 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.






25. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






26. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.






27. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.






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






29. 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.






30. 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






31. The inability to retrieve learned information.






32. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






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






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






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






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. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






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






39. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.






40. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






41. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






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






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






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






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






46. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.






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






48. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






49. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.






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