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






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






3. 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






4. The use of physical punishment.






5. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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).






10. 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.






11. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo






12. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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






19. 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.






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






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






22. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






23. 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






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






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






26. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






32. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.






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






34. The total length of the class.






35. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






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






37. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






38. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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






40. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.






41. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






42. 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






43. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.






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






45. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






46. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






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






48. 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.






49. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






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