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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 division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Enrichment Programs
Absolute Grading Standards
Semantic Memory
Carroll's Model of School Learning
2. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Functional Fixedness
Contingency Contracting
Norm-Referenced Testing
Feedback Loop
3. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Normal Distribution
Forgetting
Allocated Time
Aptitude Tests
4. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Face Validity
Token Economy
Performance Grading Scales
5. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Difficulty of the Task
Confidence Interval
Learning Disability
Gender Bias
6. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Affective Objectives
Enrichment Programs
Instructional Theory
Mild Retardation
7. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Models (Instruction)
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
General (or High-Road) Transfer
8. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Two-sigma problem
Static Assessment Approach
Socioeconomic Status
9. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Internal Locus of Control
Visual Impairment
Shaping
Moderate Retardation
10. 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
Summative Evaluation
Analytical Intelligence
Enrichment Programs
Self-Efficacy
11. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Achievement Test Battery
Human Needs Theory
Class Inclusion
T-Scores
12. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Active teaching
Luck
Reinforcer
Effort
13. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Moratorium
Generative learning
Construct Validity
Achievement Tests
14. How capable one actually is.
Development
Real Self-Efficacy
Group Consequences
Intermittent Retardation
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).
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Direct Modeling
Growth Needs
Problem Solving
16. 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.
Syntax
Luck
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Withitness
17. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Character
Expository Teaching
Language System
18. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Concurrent Validity
Identity
Invincibility Fallacy
Character
19. How relevant a test is at face value.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Face Validity
Triarchic Theory
Analytical Intelligence
20. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Group Consequences
Preconventional Morality
Identity Diffusion
Social Inferences
21. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Active teaching
Concept-Driven Models
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Symbolic Modeling
22. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Instructional Theory
Descriptive Statistics
Sensory Register
Character
23. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
Brainstorming
Direct instruction
Identity Diffusion
Models (Observational Learning)
24. 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.
Gender Role
Scheduled Time
Accelerated Programs
Expository Teaching
25. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Retroactive Interference
Heuristics
At-Risk Students
Confidence Interval
26. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Pragmatics
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Chunking
Transitivity
27. 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
Absolute Grading Standards
Subschemata
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Cooing
28. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Morphemes
Token Economy
Proactive Interference
Achievement Test Battery
29. The study of the meaning behind words.
Procedural Memory
Phonemes
Echoic Storage Register
Semantics
30. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Procedural Memory
Advance Organizer
Operant Behavior
Feedback Loop
31. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Acronym
Mastery Grading Scales
Reversibility
Symbolic Modeling
32. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Elaboration
Problem Solving
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
33. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Analytical Intelligence
Anxiety Disorders
Dynamic Assessment Approach
IDEAL Strategy
34. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Receptive Language Disorders
Content Validity
Tracking
Reciprocal Teaching
35. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Working-Backward Strategy
Behavior Disorders
Norm Group
Algorithm
36. 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.
Intrinsic Motivation
Inclusion
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Difficulty of the Task
37. 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.
Educational Psychology
Maturation
Performance Grading Scales
Gifted and Talented Children
38. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Class Inclusion
Normal Distribution
Construct Validity
Development
39. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Practical Intelligence
Rehearsal
Mnemonic Devices
40. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Gender Role
Cooing
Achievement Motivation
Fluency Disorders
41. 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
Phonology
Cognitive Objectives
Object-Relations Theory
42. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Episodic Memory
Summative Evaluation
Class Inclusion
Tracking
43. 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.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Keyword
44. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Inattention
Group Training Experiences
Metacognition
Perception
45. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Brainstorming
Practical Intelligence
Centration
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
46. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Schemata
Learned Helplessness
Receptive Language Disorders
Reinforcer
47. 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.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Educational Goals
Educational Psychology
Exhibition
48. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Holophrastic Speech
Phonemes
Concept-Driven Models
Character
49. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Luck
Intermittent Retardation
Communication
Morphemes
50. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Self-Efficacy
Community-Based Education Programs
Elaborative Encoding
Retrieval