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






2. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.






3. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






4. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.






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






6. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.






7. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






8. 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).






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






10. 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.






11. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






12. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






13. 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.






14. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -






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






16. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.






17. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






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






19. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.






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






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






22. 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






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






24. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






25. Those one observes.






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






27. 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.






28. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.






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






30. The study of the meaning behind words.






31. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.






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






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






34. Repeating information in the same way it was received.






35. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done






36. 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).






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






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






39. 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.






40. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.






46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is unstable and external to the student.






50. Relating new information to that previously learned.