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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 seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Absolute Grading Standards
Dyslexia
Hyperactivity
2. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Exceptional Learners
Content Validity
Standard Error of Estimate
Criterion-Referenced Testing
3. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Perception
Subschemata
Exhibition
Achievement Motivation
4. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Time-Out
Syntax
Deficiency Needs
Effort
5. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Planned Ignoring
Difficulty of the Task
Response Set
Extensive Retardation
6. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.
Reciprocal Teaching
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Cooing
7. How capable one actually is.
Reciprocal Determinism
Class Inclusion
Real Self-Efficacy
Assertive Discipline
8. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Sensory Register
Anxiety Disorders
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Episodic Memory
9. 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.
Whole Language Approach
Social Cognition
Cooing
Performance Grading Scales
10. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Effort
Reading
IDEAL Strategy
11. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Visual Impairment
Subschemata
Social Learning and Expectancy
Iconic Storage Register
12. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Difficulty of the Task
Law of Effect
Foreclosure
Task Analysis
13. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Identity Achievement
Derived Score
Organization
Effort
14. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Motivation
Perception
Secondary Reinforcer
15. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Attribution Theory
Concurrent Validity
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
16. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Gifted and Talented Children
Visual Impairment
Contingency Contracting
Constructivism
17. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Procedural Memory
Enrichment Programs
Conditioning
18. 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.
Classification
Mnemonic Devices
Personal Fable
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
19. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Impulsivity
Organization
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
20. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Public Law 94-142
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Elaboration
21. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Receptive Language Disorders
Self-Efficacy
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Preconventional Morality
22. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Vicarious Learning
Law of Effect
Behavior Disorders
Criterion-Related Validity
23. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Social Learning and Expectancy
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Moderate Retardation
24. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Episodic Memory
Educational Goals
Semantics
Behavior Disorders
25. 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
Identity Diffusion
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Generative learning
26. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Character Education Programs
Postconventional Morality
Human Needs Theory
Transformation
27. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Conventional Morality
Identity Diffusion
Character
Severe and Profound Retardation
28. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Hearing Impairment
Direct Modeling
Derived Score
Communication
29. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.
Scheduled Time
Gender Identity
Taxonomy
Two-Store Model
30. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Retroactive Interference
Analytical Intelligence
Ability
31. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Ability
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Difficulty of the Task
Inclusion
32. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Premack Principle
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Pragmatics
Instructional Theory
33. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Babbling
Generalized Reinforcer
Morphemes
34. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Assertive Discipline
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Motivation
35. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Expected Outcomes
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Concept-Driven Models
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
36. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Behavior Disorders
Retroactive Interference
Ability
Response-Cost System
37. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Transformation
Identity Achievement
Procedural Memory
38. 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.
Achievement Tests
Echoic Storage Register
Accelerated Programs
Premack Principle
39. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Academic Learning Time
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Accelerated Programs
Criterion-Referenced Testing
40. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Extrinsic Motivation
Babbling
Organization
Two-Store Model
41. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Premack Principle
Expected Outcomes
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
42. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Portfolio
Synthesized Modeling
Pivotal Response Therapy
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
43. 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.
General Objectives
Performance Grading Scales
Derived Score
Concurrent Validity
44. The sensory register for visual information.
Norm Group
Transfer of Information
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Iconic Storage Register
45. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Object-Relations Theory
Expository Advance Organizers
Self-Determination Theory
46. 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.
Questioning Techniques
Growth Needs
Self-Determination Theory
Difficulty of the Task
47. 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.
Extensive Retardation
Gender Identity
Social Inferences
Seriation
48. 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.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Scheduled Time
Derived Score
Gifted and Talented Children
49. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Classification
Type-R Conditioning
Syntax
Object-Relations Theory
50. The use of physical punishment.
Feedback Loop
Corporal Punishment
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Generalized Reinforcer