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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. 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.






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






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






4. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






5. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.






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






7. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






8. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






9. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






10. 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.






11. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






12. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






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






14. 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.






15. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






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






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






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






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






20. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






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






22. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.






23. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






24. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






25. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.






26. 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.






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






28. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.






29. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






30. The sensory register for visual information.






31. 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 external to the student.






32. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






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






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






35. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






36. 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.






37. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






38. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






39. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






40. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.






41. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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)

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






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






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






49. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






50. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.