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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. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. Bringing information out of long-term memory.






5. 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






6. 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






7. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.






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






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






10. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






11. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






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






13. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.






14. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.






15. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).






16. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.






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






23. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






24. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






25. 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.






26. How relevant a test is at face value.






27. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.






28. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






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






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






31. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.






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






33. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






34. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






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






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






37. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.






38. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.






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






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






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






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






43. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






44. 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.






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






46. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






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






48. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






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






50. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.