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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






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






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






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






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






6. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






7. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)


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






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






10. The sensory register for visual information.






11. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.






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






16. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






17. 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






18. 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.






19. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






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






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






22. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.






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






24. 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 (






25. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.






26. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.






27. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.






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






29. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.






30. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.






31. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.






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






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






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






35. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.






36. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.






37. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.






38. 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.






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






40. 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).






41. 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.






42. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.






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






44. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.






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






46. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).






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






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






49. 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.






50. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.