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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 amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






2. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.






3. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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4. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b






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






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






7. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






8. 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






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






10. 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.






11. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.






12. 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.






13. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. The inability to retrieve learned information.






22. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).






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






24. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






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






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






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






28. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






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






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






31. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.






32. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






33. 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.






34. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






35. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






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






37. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. Relating current information with previous learning.






43. 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.






44. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.






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






46. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for






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






48. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.






49. 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.






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