Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






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






3. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.






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






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






6. The results one expects from different behaviors.






7. 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.






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






9. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.






10. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






11. 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.






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






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






14. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






15. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






16. 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






17. The inability to retrieve learned information.






18. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.






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. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.






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






22. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


23. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






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






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






26. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






27. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.






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






29. 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






30. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






31. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






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






33. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






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






35. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






36. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






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






38. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






39. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






40. The study of how students learn and develop.






41. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






42. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






43. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






44. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






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






46. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






47. 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






48. 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 unstable and external to the student.






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






50. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.