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






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






3. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.






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






5. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.






6. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.






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






8. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.






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






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






11. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.






12. The study of how students learn and develop.






13. 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






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






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






16. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






17. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






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






19. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






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






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






22. 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.






23. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






24. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






25. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






26. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.






27. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.






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






29. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






37. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.






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






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






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






41. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






42. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.






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






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






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






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






47. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






48. The total length of the class.






49. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.






50. 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.