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






2. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






3. The sensory register for visual information.






4. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.






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






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






7. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






15. The results one expects from different behaviors.






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






17. The inability to retrieve learned information.






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






19. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






20. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.






21. 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.






22. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






23. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.






24. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






25. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






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






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






28. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






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






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






31. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.






32. 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.






33. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






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






35. 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






36. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






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






38. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.






39. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.






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






41. 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.






42. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn






43. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






44. 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.






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






46. 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






47. 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.






48. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.






49. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






50. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.