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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Foreclosure
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Performance Grading Scales
Intrinsic Motivation
2. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Schemata
Semantics
Performance Grading Scales
Transitivity
3. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Questioning Techniques
Transitivity
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
4. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Community-Based Education Programs
Scheduled Time
Cognitive Objectives
Human Needs Theory
5. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Functional Fixedness
Maturation
Models (Instruction)
Gender Identity
6. 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.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Active teaching
Encoding
Scheduled Time
7. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Cultural Differences Theories
Long-Term Memory
Character Education Programs
8. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Data-Driven Models
Group Training Experiences
Direct Modeling
Deficiency Needs
9. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
General Exploratory Activities
Learning Disabilities
Internal Locus of Control
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
10. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Maturation
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Aptitude Tests
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
11. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Transformation
Teaching Efficacy
Metacognition
Reciprocal Teaching
12. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Community-Based Education Programs
Instruction
Models (Instruction)
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
13. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Psychomotor Objectives
Demonstrations
Invincibility Fallacy
Mastery Grading Scales
14. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Advance Organizer
Working-Backward Strategy
Intrinsic Motivation
Individual and Small-Group Activities
15. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Centration
Brainstorming
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
16. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Test Bias
Corporal Punishment
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Group Consequences
17. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Achievement Tests
Transfer of Information
Achievement Motivation
Portfolio
18. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Constructivism
Problem Solving
Phonology
Holophrastic Speech
19. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Pragmatics
Content Validity
Mastery Learning
Tracking
20. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Constructivism
Automaticity
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Scheduled Time
21. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Percentile Scores
Preconventional Morality
Language System
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
22. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Reversibility
Withitness
Accelerated Programs
Type-S Conditioning
23. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Syntax
Educational Psychology
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Communication
24. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Reciprocal Teaching
Assertive Discipline
Behavioral Theory
Perceived Self-Efficacy
25. 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
Gender Bias
Group Training Experiences
Confidence Interval
Working or Short-Term Memory
26. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Working-Backward Strategy
Achievement Tests
Limited Retardation
Expository Advance Organizers
27. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Stability
Retrieval
Derived Score
Instructional Objectives
28. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Norm Group
Token Economy
Summative Evaluation
Behavioral Theory
29. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Proactive Interference
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Communication
Response Set
30. 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.
Impulsivity
Pervasive Retardation
Language System
Time-Out
31. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Construct Validity
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Achievement Test Battery
Long-Term Memory
32. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Retrieval
Code Emphasis Strategy
Real Self-Efficacy
Law of Effect
33. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
External Locus of Control
Metacognition
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Mental Retardation
34. The total length of the class.
Extrinsic Motivation
Content Validity
Teaching Efficacy
Scheduled Time
35. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Transformation
Planned Ignoring
Face Validity
Concurrent Validity
36. Internalized self-talk.
Self-Determination Theory
Token Economy
Transitivity
Inner Speech
37. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Jigsaw II
Portfolio
Metacognition
Procedural Memory
38. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Gifted and Talented Children
Severe and Profound Retardation
Transitivity
39. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Babbling
Two-Store Model
Perception
attrition
40. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Instructional Objectives
Social Inferences
Reciprocal Teaching
Mastery Grading Scales
41. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Expected Outcomes
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Type-R Conditioning
T-Scores
42. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Echoic Storage Register
Maturation
Severe and Profound Retardation
Analytical Intelligence
43. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Echoic Storage Register
Psychometrics
Heuristics
Generative learning
44. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Absolute Grading Standards
Comparative Advance Organizers
Assertive Discipline
45. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Visual Impairment
Reliability
Group Training Experiences
Guided Discovery
46. 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.
Elaborative Encoding
Cognitive Objectives
Extrinsic Motivation
Criterion-Related Validity
47. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Derived Score
Premack Principle
Luck
Validity
48. 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.
Human Needs Theory
Specific Learning Outcomes
Content Validity
Gender Role
49. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Keyword
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Direct instruction
Reading
50. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Forgetting
Development
Public Law 94-142
Meaning Emphasis Strategy