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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. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.






2. 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






3. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.






4. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






5. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.






6. The belief that one gender is better than the other.






7. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






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






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






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






11. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.






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






13. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






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






15. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.






16. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.






17. 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.






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






19. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






20. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.






25. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






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






27. 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.






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






29. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.






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






31. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






32. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






33. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.






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






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






36. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






37. 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






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






39. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.






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






41. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.






42. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus






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






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






45. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






46. 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.






47. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.






48. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.






49. Disorder affecting a child's sight.






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