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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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).






2. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.






3. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.






4. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.






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






6. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.






7. Internalized self-talk.






8. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






10. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.






11. 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.






12. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






13. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl






14. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.






15. Those one observes.






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






17. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.






18. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






19. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






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






21. The smallest meaningful units in a language.






22. 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 unstable and external to the student.






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






24. 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.






25. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.






26. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






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






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






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






30. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






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






35. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.






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






37. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.






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






39. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.






40. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






41. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.






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






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






44. The study of the meaning behind words.






45. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.






46. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.






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






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






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






50. 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.