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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Organization
Character
Public Law 94-142
Impulsivity
2. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Gender Role
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
3. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Stability
Models (Observational Learning)
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Triarchic Theory
4. The study of the meaning behind words.
Semantics
General Objectives
Conditioning
Functional Fixedness
5. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Expository Advance Organizers
Receptive Language Disorders
Phonics Approach
Achievement Tests
6. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Subschemata
Response-Cost System
Conservation
Tracking
7. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Scheduled Time
Law of Effect
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
8. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Whole Language Approach
Language Experience Strategy
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Code Emphasis Strategy
9. 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).
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Gifted and Talented Children
Public Law 94-142
Extensive Retardation
10. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Token Economy
Validity
Face Validity
Intermittent Retardation
11. 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.
Elaboration
Ability
Content Validity
Predictive Validity
12. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Stability
Procedural Memory
Direct instruction
Automaticity
13. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Absolute Grading Standards
Working or Short-Term Memory
Synthesized Modeling
Human Needs Theory
14. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Socioeconomic Status
Symbolic Modeling
Premack Principle
Tracking
15. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Concurrent Validity
Social Learning and Expectancy
Engaged Time
Cultural Deficit Theories
16. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Postconventional Morality
Norm Group
Growth Needs
Internalization
17. 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
Syntax
Social Cognition
Reciprocal Teaching
Validity
18. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Scheduled Time
Extrinsic Motivation
Gender Identity
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
19. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Z-Scores
Task Analysis
Pedagogy
Transfer of Information
20. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Summative Evaluation
Severe and Profound Retardation
Static Assessment Approach
21. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Means-Ends Analysis
Cooing
Construct Validity
Episodic Memory
22. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Retrieval
Morphemes
Intrinsic Motivation
Moratorium
23. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Z-Scores
Impulsivity
Expository Teaching
Concept-Driven Models
24. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Self-Efficacy
Taxonomy
Expected Outcomes
Socioeconomic Status
25. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Extrinsic Motivation
Questioning Techniques
Confidence Interval
26. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Academic Learning Time
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Effort
Allocated Time
27. The total length of the class.
Time-Out
Forgetting
Algorithm
Scheduled Time
28. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Achievement Test Battery
Schemata
Automaticity
Babbling
29. 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.
Transformation
Simple Moral Education Programs
Retroactive Interference
Vicarious Learning
30. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Cognitive Objectives
Organization
Mental Retardation
Class Inclusion
31. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Feedback Loop
Specific Learning Outcomes
Gender Bias
32. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Visual Impairment
Teaching Efficacy
External Locus of Control
Reciprocal Determinism
33. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
General Exploratory Activities
Inattention
Heuristics
Content Validity
34. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Foreclosure
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Hearing Impairment
Pervasive Retardation
35. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Pedagogy
Reading
Object-Relations Theory
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
36. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Personal Fable
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Method of Loci
Procedural Memory
37. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Perception
Pivotal Response Therapy
Intrinsic Motivation
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
38. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Phonology
Classification
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
39. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Two-sigma problem
Real Self-Efficacy
Concept-Driven Models
Pedagogy
40. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Mental Retardation
Construct Validity
Face Validity
41. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Portfolio
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Generalized Reinforcer
Community-Based Education Programs
42. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Moderate Retardation
General (or High-Road) Transfer
43. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Organization
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Rehearsal
Language Experience Strategy
44. The sensory register for auditory information.
Clustering
Echoic Storage Register
Personal Fable
Learning Disability
45. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Decay
Brainstorming
Mild Retardation
Portfolio
46. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Character Education Programs
Community-Based Education Programs
Organization
Exceptional Learners
47. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Analytical Intelligence
48. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Identity
Symbolic Modeling
External Locus of Control
Time-Out
49. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Decay
Means-Ends Analysis
Working-Backward Strategy
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
50. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Behavioral Theory
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Cooperative Learning
Epilepsy