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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Identity Achievement
Attention
Character Education Programs
Academic Learning Time
2. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Exceptional Learners
Operant Behavior
Achievement Tests
3. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Achievement Tests
Self-Regulation
At-Risk Students
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
4. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Inner Speech
T-Scores
Internal Locus of Control
Cultural Differences Theories
5. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Practical Intelligence
attrition
Acronym
Instructional Theory
6. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Inattention
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Concurrent Validity
Conservation
7. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Response-Cost System
Gender Role
Mastery Grading Scales
Inner Speech
8. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Motivation
Demonstrations
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Proactive Interference
9. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Two-Store Model
Standard Error of Estimate
Secondary Reinforcer
Synthetic Intelligence
10. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Method of Loci
Deficiency Needs
Law of Effect
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
11. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Mnemonic Devices
Community-Based Education Programs
Mastery Learning
Questioning Techniques
12. 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.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Assertive Discipline
Analytical Intelligence
Socioeconomic Status
13. How relevant a test is at face value.
Face Validity
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Synthetic Intelligence
Decay
14. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Expected Outcomes
Descriptive Grading Scales
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Moratorium
15. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Method of Loci
Synthesized Modeling
Fluency Disorders
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
16. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Pervasive Retardation
Response Set
Reciprocal Teaching
Acronym
17. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Behavioral Theory
Absolute Grading Standards
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Luck
18. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Reversibility
Impulsivity
Task Analysis
Development
19. How capable one actually is.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Real Self-Efficacy
Group Consequences
20. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Preconventional Morality
Percentile Scores
Gender Identity
Response Set
21. 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.
Summative Evaluation
Educational Psychology
Impulsivity
Metacognition
22. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Face Validity
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Encoding
23. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Transitivity
Public Law 94-142
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
24. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Babbling
Norm-Referenced Testing
Phonology
Psychometrics
25. 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.
Phonics Approach
Self-Determination Theory
Inattention
Expository Teaching
26. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Schemata
Semantic Memory
General (or High-Road) Transfer
27. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Premack Principle
Public Law 94-142
Extrinsic Motivation
Reading
28. 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.
Socioeconomic Status
Dyslexia
Working-Backward Strategy
Tracking
29. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Mental Retardation
Language System
Identity Achievement
Group Consequences
30. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Tracking
Educational Goals
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
31. 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.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Analogies
Phonics Approach
32. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Schemata
Limited Retardation
Gifted and Talented Children
33. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Performance Grading Scales
Models (Instruction)
Retrieval
34. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Transfer of Information
Behavioral Theory
Descriptive Statistics
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
35. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Attention
Mild Retardation
Limited Retardation
Inner Speech
36. 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).
Articulation Difficulties
Intrinsic Motivation
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Conventional Morality
37. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Active teaching
Articulation Difficulties
Psychomotor Objectives
Identity Achievement
38. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Analogies
Hearing Impairment
Gender Bias
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
39. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Assertive Discipline
Stability
40. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Social Inferences
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Public Law 94-142
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
41. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Law of Effect
Functional Fixedness
Severe and Profound Retardation
Standard Error of Estimate
42. 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
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Attribution Theory
Active teaching
43. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Learned Helplessness
Public Law 94-142
Enrichment Programs
Analytical Intelligence
44. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Heuristics
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Behavioral Theory
Construct Validity
45. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Time-Out
Identity Diffusion
Clustering
Social Learning and Expectancy
46. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Heuristics
Conditioning
Self-Efficacy
47. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Public Law 94-142
At-Risk Students
Receptive Language Disorders
Behavior Disorders
48. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Mnemonic Devices
Perception
Expository Teaching
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
49. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
attrition
Learned Helplessness
Extensive Retardation
Fluency Disorders
50. 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.
Corporal Punishment
Intrinsic Motivation
IDEAL Strategy
Time-Out