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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.
Exceptional Learners
Generalized Reinforcer
Class Inclusion
Cooperative Learning
2. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Portfolio
Phonology
Achievement Motivation
Holophrastic Speech
3. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Enrichment Programs
Difficulty of the Task
Inclusion
Instructional Objectives
4. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Face Validity
Human Needs Theory
Cognitive Objectives
5. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Triarchic Theory
Cultural Differences Theories
Metacognition
Synthetic Intelligence
6. 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.
Ability
Learning Disability
Normal Distribution
T-Scores
7. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Foreclosure
Perception
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Conventional Morality
8. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Centration
Limited Retardation
Clustering
9. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Reinforcer
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Academic Learning Time
10. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Respondent Behavior
Foreclosure
Secondary Reinforcer
Brainstorming
11. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Validity
Reliability
Brainstorming
Postconventional Morality
12. The sensory register for auditory information.
Echoic Storage Register
Affective Objectives
Transformation
Self-Regulation
13. 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.
Gifted and Talented Children
Babbling
Inclusion
Instructional Theory
14. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Clustering
Moderate Retardation
Withitness
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
15. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Shaping
Law of Effect
Fluency Disorders
Symbolic Modeling
16. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Human Needs Theory
Problem Solving
T-Scores
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
17. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Analogies
Identity Achievement
Holophrastic Speech
18. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Growth Needs
Tracking
Identity Achievement
Task Analysis
19. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Proactive Interference
Extensive Retardation
Phonemes
20. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Mastery Grading Scales
Semantic Memory
Class Inclusion
Hyperactivity
21. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).
Preconventional Morality
Constructivism
Personal Fable
Social Inferences
22. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Academic Learning Time
Hearing Impairment
Social Inferences
Internalization
23. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Achievement Tests
Real Self-Efficacy
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
24. 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
Phonemes
Active teaching
Operant Behavior
25. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
At-Risk Students
Perception
Socioeconomic Status
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
26. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Active teaching
Type-R Conditioning
Inclusion
Response Set
27. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Semantic Memory
Symbolic Modeling
Clustering
28. 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.
Brainstorming
Impulsivity
Two-Store Model
Attribution Theory
29. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Concept-Driven Models
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
30. 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.
At-Risk Students
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Task Analysis
Pervasive Retardation
31. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Clustering
Triarchic Theory
Conditioning
Fluency Disorders
32. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Synthetic Intelligence
Mental Retardation
Social Cognition
Taxonomy
33. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Assertive Discipline
Identity
Analogies
Language Experience Strategy
34. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Instructional Objectives
Deficiency Needs
Vicarious Learning
35. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Stability
Test Bias
Social Inferences
Morphemes
36. 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.
Seriation
Difficulty of the Task
Heuristics
Class Inclusion
37. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Conventional Morality
Holophrastic Speech
Test-Retest Reliability
Token Economy
38. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Responsibility
General Exploratory Activities
Comparative Advance Organizers
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
39. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Exhibition
Maturation
Tracking
40. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Whole Language Approach
Sensory Register
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Gifted and Talented Children
41. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Morphemes
Group Consequences
Contingency Contracting
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
42. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Effort
Direct instruction
Constructivism
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
43. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Engaged Time
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Practical Intelligence
Descriptive Statistics
44. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Mental Retardation
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Practical Intelligence
Extensive Retardation
45. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Portfolio
Social Cognition
Accelerated Programs
Two-sigma problem
46. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Critical pedagogy
Mental Retardation
Elaboration
Character
47. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Mental Retardation
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Enrichment Programs
Behavior Disorders
48. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Morphemes
Socioeconomic Status
Conventional Morality
49. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Token Economy
Pedagogy
Allocated Time
Reversibility
50. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Expressive Disorders
Development
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Group Training Experiences