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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Development
Educational Goals
Internal Locus of Control
Active teaching
2. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Direct instruction
Internalization
Phonemes
3. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Impulsivity
Conditioning
Standard Error of Estimate
Maturation
4. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Chunking
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Performance Grading Scales
Concurrent Validity
5. 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.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Descriptive Grading Scales
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Ability
6. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Learning Disabilities
Identity Diffusion
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Reversibility
7. 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.
Practical Intelligence
Secondary Reinforcer
Self-Determination Theory
Voice Disorders
8. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Centration
Static Assessment Approach
Proactive Interference
Reciprocal Determinism
9. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Respondent Behavior
Descriptive Grading Scales
Proactive Interference
Severe and Profound Retardation
10. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Response Set
Class Inclusion
Primary Reinforcer
Concept-Driven Models
11. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Morphemes
Mnemonic Devices
Mild Retardation
Expository Teaching
12. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Responsibility
Cultural Deficit Theories
Active teaching
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
13. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Foreclosure
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Vicarious Learning
14. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Phonemes
Limited Retardation
Episodic Memory
15. 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 (
Pedagogy
Portfolio
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Postconventional Morality
16. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Cooperative Learning
Retroactive Interference
Conditioning
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
17. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Articulation Difficulties
Educational Goals
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Social Learning and Expectancy
18. 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.
Real Self-Efficacy
Keyword
General Exploratory Activities
Self-Efficacy
19. 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.
Achievement Motivation
Criterion-Related Validity
Allocated Time
Teaching Efficacy
20. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Achievement Motivation
Sensory Register
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Dyslexia
21. 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
Language Experience Strategy
Socioeconomic Status
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Pivotal Response Therapy
22. 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
Test Bias
Inner Speech
Performance Grading Scales
Triarchic Theory
23. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Mnemonic Devices
Behavioral Theory
Motivation
Carroll's Model of School Learning
24. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Hyperactivity
Withitness
Phonemes
Models (Instruction)
25. 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.
Identity
Achievement Test Battery
Luck
Elaborative Encoding
26. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Symbolic Modeling
Human Needs Theory
Effort
Secondary Reinforcer
27. 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.
Achievement Test Battery
Impulsivity
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
28. 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.
Task Analysis
Expected Outcomes
Elaborative Encoding
Summative Evaluation
29. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Semantics
Sensory Register
Respondent Behavior
Hyperactivity
30. How capable one actually is.
Real Self-Efficacy
Symbolic Modeling
Demonstrations
T-Scores
31. 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
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Automaticity
Withitness
32. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Jigsaw II
attrition
Retrieval
Conditioning
33. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Dyslexia
Normal Distribution
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Simple Moral Education Programs
34. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Babbling
Confidence Interval
Retroactive Interference
Development
35. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Assertive Discipline
Working-Backward Strategy
Internal Locus of Control
Inattention
36. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Personal Fable
Predictive Validity
Receptive Language Disorders
Working-Backward Strategy
37. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Clustering
Whole Language Approach
Two-sigma problem
Criterion-Related Validity
38. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Community-Based Education Programs
At-Risk Students
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Centration
39. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Mental Retardation
Norm Group
Expository Teaching
40. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Observational Learning
Problem Solving
Psychomotor Objectives
41. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Socioeconomic Status
Working-Backward Strategy
Norm Group
Decay
42. 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.
Observational Learning
Analytical Intelligence
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Personal Fable
43. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Extrinsic Motivation
Vicarious Learning
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Pragmatics
44. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Test-Retest Reliability
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Response Set
Z-Scores
45. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Attribution Theory
Direct instruction
Epilepsy
Mental Retardation
46. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Working or Short-Term Memory
Z-Scores
Community-Based Education Programs
Content Validity
47. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Expected Outcomes
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Communication
Phonics Approach
48. 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.
Expository Advance Organizers
Means-Ends Analysis
Socioeconomic Status
Pedagogy
49. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Expressive Disorders
Exceptional Learners
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Inattention
50. The sensory register for visual information.
Iconic Storage Register
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Respondent Behavior
Corporal Punishment