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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 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.






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






4. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






5. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






6. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).






7. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






8. 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.






9. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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).






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






16. 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.






17. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






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






19. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






20. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






21. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






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






23. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






24. The study of how students learn and develop.






25. Internalized self-talk.






26. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.






27. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.






28. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.






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






30. The study of the meaning behind words.






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






33. How relevant a test is at face value.






34. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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 intrinsic to the student.






40. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






41. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






42. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






50. 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.






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