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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Guided Discovery
Luck
Motivation
Response Set
2. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Social Cognition
Voice Disorders
Symbolic Modeling
Extensive Retardation
3. Internalized self-talk.
Models (Instruction)
Responsibility
Inner Speech
Absolute Grading Standards
4. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Observational Learning
Reciprocal Teaching
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Mental Retardation
5. 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.
Language Experience Strategy
Inclusion
Expressive Disorders
Z-Scores
6. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Concurrent Validity
Responsibility
Demonstrations
Means-Ends Analysis
7. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Social Cognition
Cultural Differences Theories
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Learned Helplessness
8. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Phonics Approach
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Transfer of Information
At-Risk Students
9. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Descriptive Statistics
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Two-Store Model
Receptive Language Disorders
10. 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.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Difficulty of the Task
Acronym
11. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Preconventional Morality
Constructivism
Achievement Tests
Psychomotor Objectives
12. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Semantics
Extrinsic Motivation
Normal Distribution
Premack Principle
13. 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).
Public Law 94-142
Method of Loci
Affective Objectives
Reciprocal Determinism
14. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Internal Locus of Control
Self-Efficacy
Active teaching
Analytical Intelligence
15. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Token Economy
Two-Store Model
Elaboration
Anxiety Disorders
16. 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.
Pedagogy
Retrieval
Synthetic Intelligence
Mild Retardation
17. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Academic Learning Time
Validity
External Locus of Control
Dyslexia
18. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Phonics Approach
Vicarious Learning
Inner Speech
Reading
19. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Taxonomy
Demonstrations
Teaching Efficacy
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
20. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for
Clustering
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Two-Store Model
Attribution Theory
21. 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.
Transfer of Information
Expressive Disorders
Echoic Storage Register
Self-Determination Theory
22. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Criterion-Related Validity
Sensory Register
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Contingency Contracting
23. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Cooperative Learning
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Self-Determination Theory
Community-Based Education Programs
24. 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.
Inner Speech
Standard Error of Estimate
Learning Disabilities
Self-Regulation
25. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Analogies
Contingency Contracting
Gifted and Talented Children
Morphemes
26. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Generative learning
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Data-Driven Models
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
27. 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.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Accelerated Programs
Attention
Achievement Tests
28. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Object-Relations Theory
Mental Retardation
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Chunking
29. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Generative learning
Brainstorming
Reversibility
30. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Instructional Objectives
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Problem Solving
31. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Gender Role
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Concept-Driven Models
Predictive Validity
32. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Learning Disability
Advance Organizer
Gender Role
Algorithm
33. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Ability
Gender Bias
Episodic Memory
34. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Z-Scores
Clustering
Group Training Experiences
Language System
35. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Demonstrations
Babbling
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Reciprocal Teaching
36. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Portfolio
Pedagogy
Derived Score
37. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Affective Objectives
Reversibility
Conventional Morality
Models (Instruction)
38. 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).
Exceptional Learners
Cooperative Learning
Descriptive Grading Scales
Transfer of Information
39. 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.
Inner Speech
Time-Out
Psychomotor Objectives
Dual Coding Hypothesis
40. 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
Attribution Theory
Intrinsic Motivation
Data-Driven Models
41. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Language System
Models (Observational Learning)
Secondary Reinforcer
42. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Instructional Theory
Gender Bias
Extensive Retardation
Dynamic Assessment Approach
43. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Pragmatics
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Premack Principle
Test Bias
44. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Cooing
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
IDEAL Strategy
Invincibility Fallacy
45. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Observational Learning
Direct instruction
Performance-Based Test Strategies
46. The study of the meaning behind words.
Semantics
Intermittent Retardation
Achievement Motivation
Enrichment Programs
47. 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.
Elaborative Encoding
Contingency Contracting
Keyword
Transfer of Information
48. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Limited Retardation
Operant Behavior
Semantics
Fluency Disorders
49. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
IDEAL Strategy
Social Learning and Expectancy
Achievement Test Battery
50. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Language System
Anxiety Disorders
Cooing
T-Scores