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






2. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






3. 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 stable and external to the student.






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






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






6. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.






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






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






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






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






11. The total length of the class.






12. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.






19. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.






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






21. 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.






22. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.






23. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.






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






34. 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.






35. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.






42. 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






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






44. Those one observes.






45. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






46. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.






47. 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 stable and intrinsic to the student.






48. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.






49. 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.






50. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.