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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 belief that one gender is better than the other.






2. The use of physical punishment.






3. How capable one actually is.






4. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.






11. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.






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






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






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






15. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.






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






17. Relating current information with previous learning.






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






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






20. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.






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






22. The study of the meaning behind words.






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






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






25. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.






26. 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.






27. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.






28. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






29. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.






30. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.






31. 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.






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






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






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






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






39. 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).






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






41. 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).






42. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.






43. 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.






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






45. Internalized self-talk.






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






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






48. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.






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






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