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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 30 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 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






2. 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






3. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).






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






5. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






6. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.






7. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un






8. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






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






15. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






20. The study of the meaning behind words.






21. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






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






23. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.






24. 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.






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






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






27. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.






28. 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.






29. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






30. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.






31. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






32. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.






33. 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.






34. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






35. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






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






37. 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.






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






39. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.






40. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






41. 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.






42. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






43. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






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






45. 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.






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






47. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.






48. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.






49. 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.






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






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