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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Classification
Percentile Scores
Assertive Discipline
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
2. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Motivation
Planned Ignoring
Expository Teaching
Mnemonic Devices
3. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Response Set
Normal Distribution
Self-Regulation
Character
4. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Learning Disability
Operant Behavior
Concurrent Validity
Algorithm
5. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Self-Determination Theory
Foreclosure
Semantic Memory
Achievement Test Battery
6. 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.
Learned Helplessness
Contingency Contracting
Critical pedagogy
Character Education Programs
7. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Exceptional Learners
Demonstrations
Mental Retardation
Gender Identity
8. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
General Objectives
Criterion-Related Validity
Instruction
Encoding
9. The sensory register for visual information.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Iconic Storage Register
Cognitive Objectives
Chunking
10. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Derived Score
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Holophrastic Speech
11. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Working-Backward Strategy
Sensory Register
Limited Retardation
attrition
12. Those one observes.
Motivation
Two-Store Model
Reversibility
Models (Observational Learning)
13. 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.
Exceptional Learners
Conventional Morality
Reinforcer
Token Economy
14. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Phonemes
Construct Validity
Preconventional Morality
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
15. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Social Inferences
Planned Ignoring
Impulsivity
Simple Moral Education Programs
16. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Babbling
Norm-Referenced Testing
Mental Retardation
Academic Learning Time
17. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Growth Needs
Educational Goals
Community-Based Education Programs
18. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
Hyperactivity
Anxiety Disorders
Socioeconomic Status
Impulsivity
19. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Premack Principle
Concept-Driven Models
Voice Disorders
Holophrastic Speech
20. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Holophrastic Speech
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Elaborative Encoding
Real Self-Efficacy
21. 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).
Seriation
Primary Reinforcer
Conventional Morality
Conservation
22. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Response-Cost System
Luck
Psychometrics
Hyperactivity
23. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Deficiency Needs
Models (Observational Learning)
Responsibility
24. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Cooing
Decay
Guided Discovery
25. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Advance Organizer
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Working-Backward Strategy
26. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Shaping
T-Scores
Affective Objectives
General Objectives
27. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Internal Locus of Control
Self-Efficacy
Extensive Retardation
Vicarious Learning
28. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Sensory Register
Performance-Based Test Strategies
29. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Summative Evaluation
Achievement Test Battery
Educational Psychology
Retrieval
30. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Subschemata
Active teaching
Mastery Learning
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
31. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
General Exploratory Activities
Foreclosure
Task Analysis
Cultural Deficit Theories
32. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Morphemes
Norm Group
Response Set
Anxiety Disorders
33. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Preconventional Morality
Sensory Register
Feedback Loop
Class Inclusion
34. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Perception
Retrieval
Reciprocal Determinism
Character
35. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Mild Retardation
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Transformation
Community-Based Education Programs
36. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Face Validity
Identity
37. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Token Economy
Criterion-Related Validity
Analogies
38. 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.
Class Inclusion
Tracking
Clustering
Procedural Memory
39. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Receptive Language Disorders
Exhibition
Static Assessment Approach
Portfolio
40. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Mental Retardation
attrition
Character Education Programs
41. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Direct instruction
Fluency Disorders
Growth Needs
Extrinsic Motivation
42. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Self-Regulation
Group Training Experiences
Character Education Programs
Achievement Tests
43. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Transitional Bilingual Programs
At-Risk Students
Keyword
44. 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.
Content Validity
Echoic Storage Register
Character Education Programs
IDEAL Strategy
45. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Cognitive Objectives
Babbling
Feedback Loop
Epilepsy
46. 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.
Social Inferences
Expected Outcomes
Effort
Planned Ignoring
47. 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 (
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Invincibility Fallacy
Postconventional Morality
Reinforcer
48. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Reversibility
Moderate Retardation
Demonstrations
Symbolic Modeling
49. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Rehearsal
Sensory Register
Models (Instruction)
Retroactive Interference
50. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Z-Scores
Social Cognition
Two-sigma problem
Psychometrics