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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Confidence Interval
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Procedural Memory
Token Economy
2. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Community-Based Education Programs
Cognitive Objectives
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Mental Retardation
3. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Retroactive Interference
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
4. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Performance Grading Scales
Shaping
Feedback Loop
Clustering
5. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Symbolic Modeling
Semantics
Direct Modeling
Questioning Techniques
6. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Pedagogy
Keyword
Deficiency Needs
Instructional Objectives
7. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Academic Learning Time
Foreclosure
Internalization
Two-sigma problem
8. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Norm Group
Portfolio
Critical pedagogy
Mental Retardation
9. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Working-Backward Strategy
Jigsaw II
Character Education Programs
10. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Time-Out
Response-Cost System
Planned Ignoring
Group Training Experiences
11. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Episodic Memory
Gender Bias
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Two-sigma problem
12. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Tracking
Academic Learning Time
Invincibility Fallacy
Babbling
13. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Elaboration
Guided Discovery
Social Learning and Expectancy
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
14. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Method of Loci
Fluency Disorders
Dyslexia
15. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Subschemata
Percentile Scores
Reciprocal Teaching
Models (Instruction)
16. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Morphemes
Descriptive Grading Scales
Instructional Objectives
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
17. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Type-S Conditioning
Concurrent Validity
Transitivity
Test-Retest Reliability
18. 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 external to the student.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Luck
Acronym
Difficulty of the Task
19. 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.
Expository Advance Organizers
Episodic Memory
Transformation
Demonstrations
20. 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).
Face Validity
Achievement Motivation
Transfer of Information
Identity Achievement
21. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Stability
Reversibility
Test-Retest Reliability
22. 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
Active teaching
Achievement Test Battery
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Episodic Memory
23. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Two-sigma problem
Learning Disabilities
Accelerated Programs
Enrichment Programs
24. 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.
Shaping
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Reciprocal Determinism
Descriptive Grading Scales
25. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Guided Discovery
Shaping
Generalized Reinforcer
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
26. 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.
Learning Disabilities
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Specific Learning Outcomes
Postconventional Morality
27. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Normal Distribution
IDEAL Strategy
Motivation
Withitness
28. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Chunking
Stability
Proactive Interference
Psychometrics
29. 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).
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Inattention
Preconventional Morality
30. 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
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Content Validity
Babbling
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
31. 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).
Achievement Motivation
Aptitude Tests
Deficiency Needs
Development
32. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Chunking
Teaching Efficacy
Derived Score
Social Cognition
33. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
Intrinsic Motivation
Questioning Techniques
Conventional Morality
Phonics Approach
34. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Critical pedagogy
Pivotal Response Therapy
IDEAL Strategy
Fluency Disorders
35. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Synthesized Modeling
Learning Disability
Character
36. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Responsibility
Criterion-Related Validity
37. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Formative Evaluation
Problem Solving
Operant Behavior
Primary Reinforcer
38. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Elaborative Encoding
Extrinsic Motivation
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
39. 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.
Difficulty of the Task
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Reading
Self-Determination Theory
40. 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).
Severe and Profound Retardation
Learning Disabilities
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Conventional Morality
41. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Pervasive Retardation
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Preconventional Morality
Two-sigma problem
42. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Internalization
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Public Law 94-142
Comparative Advance Organizers
43. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Conditioning
Invincibility Fallacy
Ability
44. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Real Self-Efficacy
Conditioning
Expressive Disorders
Semantics
45. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Difficulty of the Task
Direct Modeling
Morphemes
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
46. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Phonics Approach
Development
47. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Expressive Disorders
Specific Learning Outcomes
Clustering
Iconic Storage Register
48. 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.
Impulsivity
Brainstorming
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Cooperative Learning
49. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Group Training Experiences
Predictive Validity
Reliability
50. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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