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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. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.






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






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






4. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






5. 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.






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






7. Internalized self-talk.






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






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






10. 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.






11. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.






12. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.






13. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.






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






15. Relating current information with previous learning.






16. One's self-perception of his or her gender.






17. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






18. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.






19. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.






20. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.






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






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






23. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.






24. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.






25. 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






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






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






28. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.






29. 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.






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






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






32. 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.






33. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.






34. 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)

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35. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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36. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.






42. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.






43. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.






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






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






46. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.






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






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






49. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.






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