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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 common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.






2. How relevant a test is at face value.






3. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.






4. 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.






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






6. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






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






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






20. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. 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






27. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).






28. 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.






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






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






31. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.






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






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






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






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






36. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.






37. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






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






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






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






41. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.






42. 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






43. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe






44. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).






45. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.






46. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






47. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.






48. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.






49. How capable one actually is.






50. The results one expects from different behaviors.