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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 inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Method of Loci
Pivotal Response Therapy
Motivation
Premack Principle
2. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Cooing
Descriptive Statistics
Tracking
Internal Locus of Control
3. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Enrichment Programs
Mnemonic Devices
Models (Observational Learning)
Whole Language Approach
4. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Descriptive Statistics
Mastery Grading Scales
Inattention
Triarchic Theory
5. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Analogies
Test-Retest Reliability
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Fluency Disorders
6. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Dyslexia
Human Needs Theory
Elaborative Encoding
7. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Derived Score
Community-Based Education Programs
Identity
Learned Helplessness
8. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Triarchic Theory
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Pedagogy
Synthesized Modeling
9. 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
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Self-Efficacy
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Growth Needs
10. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Fluency Disorders
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Active teaching
11. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Extrinsic Motivation
Centration
Portfolio
Episodic Memory
12. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Invincibility Fallacy
Self-Regulation
Inattention
Personal Fable
13. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Type-S Conditioning
Hearing Impairment
Effort
Development
14. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Gender Role
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Descriptive Grading Scales
Formative Evaluation
15. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Achievement Test Battery
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Growth Needs
Vicarious Learning
16. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Pragmatics
Synthesized Modeling
Exhibition
17. 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.
Instructional Objectives
Morphemes
Performance Grading Scales
Social Learning and Expectancy
18. 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 (
Postconventional Morality
Constructivism
Construct Validity
Reversibility
19. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Mental Retardation
Working-Backward Strategy
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Generalized Reinforcer
20. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Mild Retardation
Engaged Time
Two-Store Model
Achievement Motivation
21. 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.
Time-Out
Luck
Self-Regulation
Social Inferences
22. The use of physical punishment.
Critical pedagogy
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Percentile Scores
Corporal Punishment
23. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Stability
Reinforcer
Public Law 94-142
Extrinsic Motivation
24. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
General Exploratory Activities
Invincibility Fallacy
Preconventional Morality
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
25. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Forgetting
attrition
Phonology
26. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Functional Fixedness
Group Consequences
Absolute Grading Standards
27. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Socioeconomic Status
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Two-sigma problem
28. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Tracking
Cognitive Objectives
Difficulty of the Task
Performance-Based Test Strategies
29. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Retrieval
Internal Locus of Control
Code Emphasis Strategy
Social Learning and Expectancy
30. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Practical Intelligence
Cooing
Withitness
31. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Demonstrations
Reciprocal Determinism
Rehearsal
Limited Retardation
32. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Sensory Register
Gender Role
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Mastery Learning
33. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Hyperactivity
Seriation
Construct Validity
Babbling
34. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Voice Disorders
Construct Validity
Invincibility Fallacy
Instructional Theory
35. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Group Consequences
Content Validity
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
36. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Symbolic Modeling
Elaborative Encoding
Transitivity
37. 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.
Mild Retardation
Contingency Contracting
Phonology
Test Bias
38. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Hyperactivity
Pervasive Retardation
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Static Assessment Approach
39. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Ability
Predictive Validity
Visual Impairment
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
40. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Primary Reinforcer
Critical pedagogy
Articulation Difficulties
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
41. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Withitness
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Conservation
42. 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.
Classification
Gifted and Talented Children
Foreclosure
Critical pedagogy
43. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Educational Psychology
Assertive Discipline
Confidence Interval
Face Validity
44. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Affective Objectives
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Ability
Syntax
45. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Response Set
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Enrichment Programs
46. 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
Forgetting
Generative learning
Echoic Storage Register
Mastery Grading Scales
47. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Attention
Proactive Interference
Mastery Grading Scales
Intermittent Retardation
48. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Functional Fixedness
Schemata
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Validity
49. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Phonemes
Type-S Conditioning
Elaboration
Cooperative Learning
50. Internalized self-talk.
Inner Speech
Descriptive Grading Scales
Guided Discovery
Class Inclusion