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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. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.






3. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.






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






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






6. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






7. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.






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






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






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






11. The study of the social aspects of language use.






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






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






14. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.






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






16. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.






17. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






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






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






20. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.






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






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






32. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






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






34. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.






35. 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.






36. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






37. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.






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






39. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






40. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.






41. 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.






42. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.






43. The study of the meaning behind words.






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






45. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.






46. 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 -






47. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.






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






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






50. 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.