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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Test-Retest Reliability
Severe and Profound Retardation
Social Cognition
Observational Learning
2. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Educational Psychology
Descriptive Statistics
Human Needs Theory
Derived Score
3. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Problem Solving
Transformation
Voice Disorders
Character
4. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Symbolic Modeling
Fluency Disorders
Semantics
Echoic Storage Register
5. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Functional Fixedness
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Seriation
6. 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.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Encoding
Behavior Disorders
Limited Retardation
7. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Z-Scores
Feedback Loop
Cultural Differences Theories
Invincibility Fallacy
8. 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
Generative learning
Keyword
Decay
Instructional Objectives
9. 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.
Static Assessment Approach
Hyperactivity
Analytical Intelligence
Voice Disorders
10. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Extrinsic Motivation
Accelerated Programs
Face Validity
Social Inferences
11. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Subschemata
Jigsaw II
Social Cognition
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
12. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Static Assessment Approach
Responsibility
Active teaching
Development
13. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Responsibility
Growth Needs
Inattention
Advance Organizer
14. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Affective Objectives
Analytical Intelligence
Cognitive Objectives
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
15. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Instructional Objectives
Operant Behavior
Tracking
Gender Identity
16. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Conditioning
Language Experience Strategy
Symbolic Modeling
Taxonomy
17. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Community-Based Education Programs
Synthesized Modeling
Type-S Conditioning
Practical Intelligence
18. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Keyword
Fluency Disorders
Response Set
Ability
19. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Two-sigma problem
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Exceptional Learners
Vicarious Learning
20. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Reading
Standard Error of Estimate
Forgetting
Limited Retardation
21. 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.
Method of Loci
Jigsaw II
Learning Disabilities
IDEAL Strategy
22. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Inner Speech
General Exploratory Activities
Identity
Direct Modeling
23. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Attribution Theory
Affective Objectives
Limited Retardation
Dyslexia
24. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done
Psychomotor Objectives
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Centration
25. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Automaticity
Criterion-Related Validity
Mild Retardation
Functional Fixedness
26. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Response Set
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Brainstorming
27. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Primary Reinforcer
Internalization
Reversibility
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
28. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Absolute Grading Standards
Norm Group
Models (Instruction)
29. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Class Inclusion
Time-Out
Working-Backward Strategy
Expository Teaching
30. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Expressive Disorders
Clustering
Automaticity
Time-Out
31. 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
Aptitude Tests
Direct instruction
Cooperative Learning
Holophrastic Speech
32. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Learned Helplessness
Instructional Objectives
Group Consequences
33. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Semantics
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Method of Loci
Limited Retardation
34. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Extrinsic Motivation
Cultural Deficit Theories
Vicarious Learning
Inattention
35. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Mental Retardation
Z-Scores
Vicarious Learning
Growth Needs
36. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Response Set
Learning Disabilities
Extrinsic Motivation
37. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo
Tracking
Active teaching
Secondary Reinforcer
Descriptive Statistics
38. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Construct Validity
Learning Disability
Content Validity
39. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Formative Evaluation
Standard Error of Estimate
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Planned Ignoring
40. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Elaboration
Operant Behavior
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Achievement Motivation
41. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Direct instruction
Algorithm
42. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
General Objectives
Identity Achievement
Development
Mastery Grading Scales
43. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Reinforcer
Moderate Retardation
Code Emphasis Strategy
Withitness
44. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Cooing
Code Emphasis Strategy
Difficulty of the Task
Decay
45. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Reciprocal Teaching
Instruction
T-Scores
46. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Encoding
attrition
Functional Fixedness
Exhibition
47. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Construct Validity
Dyslexia
Chunking
Cognitive Objectives
48. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Synthetic Intelligence
Questioning Techniques
Descriptive Grading Scales
Withitness
49. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Contingency Contracting
Percentile Scores
Gifted and Talented Children
50. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Law of Effect
Face Validity
Two-sigma problem