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






2. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






3. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






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






5. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






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






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






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






9. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.






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






20. 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






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






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






23. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






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






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






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






27. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






28. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






29. 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.






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






31. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.






32. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






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






34. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.






35. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






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






37. 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






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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 (






45. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






50. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.