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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Transfer of Information
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Instructional Objectives
Static Assessment Approach
2. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Type-S Conditioning
Moratorium
Norm Group
Classification
3. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Moderate Retardation
Extensive Retardation
Gender Role
Validity
4. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.
Advance Organizer
Face Validity
Long-Term Memory
Achievement Test Battery
5. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Reciprocal Teaching
Difficulty of the Task
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
6. The sensory register for visual information.
Iconic Storage Register
Z-Scores
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Communication
7. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Cooperative Learning
Intrinsic Motivation
Psychomotor Objectives
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
8. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Hearing Impairment
Fluency Disorders
Concurrent Validity
Ability
9. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Test-Retest Reliability
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
10. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Self-Regulation
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Identity Achievement
Luck
11. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Epilepsy
Direct Modeling
Planned Ignoring
12. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Corporal Punishment
Triarchic Theory
Mnemonic Devices
Personal Fable
13. 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 (
Stability
Luck
Postconventional Morality
Task Analysis
14. 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.
Group Consequences
Working-Backward Strategy
Hyperactivity
Static Assessment Approach
15. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Extensive Retardation
Analogies
Type-R Conditioning
Individual and Small-Group Activities
16. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Guided Discovery
Premack Principle
Reinforcer
17. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.
Elaboration
Responsibility
Inattention
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
18. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Expected Outcomes
Brainstorming
Effort
19. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Extensive Retardation
Psychomotor Objectives
Comparative Advance Organizers
Syntax
20. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Static Assessment Approach
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Extrinsic Motivation
General Exploratory Activities
21. The sensory register for auditory information.
Conditioning
Echoic Storage Register
Analytical Intelligence
Instruction
22. 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.
Tracking
Cultural Differences Theories
Analytical Intelligence
Seriation
23. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Assertive Discipline
Content Validity
Expected Outcomes
Pragmatics
24. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Episodic Memory
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Summative Evaluation
Pragmatics
25. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Active teaching
Decay
Hyperactivity
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
26. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Generalized Reinforcer
Moderate Retardation
Transfer of Information
Identity
27. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Withitness
Responsibility
Hearing Impairment
Pedagogy
28. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Gifted and Talented Children
Moderate Retardation
Test Bias
Symbolic Modeling
29. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.
Cognitive Objectives
Absolute Grading Standards
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Formative Evaluation
30. 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).
Reading
Growth Needs
Dyslexia
Cultural Deficit Theories
31. 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).
Whole Language Approach
Hyperactivity
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Conventional Morality
32. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Descriptive Statistics
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
33. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Observational Learning
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Human Needs Theory
Shaping
34. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Moratorium
Reciprocal Determinism
Gender Bias
35. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Working-Backward Strategy
Static Assessment Approach
Enrichment Programs
Type-R Conditioning
36. 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.
Growth Needs
Impulsivity
Percentile Scores
Human Needs Theory
37. 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.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Learning Disabilities
Dyslexia
Active teaching
38. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Derived Score
Development
Keyword
Retroactive Interference
39. 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.
Human Needs Theory
Mild Retardation
Ability
Moratorium
40. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Learning Disabilities
Comparative Advance Organizers
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Two-sigma problem
41. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Heuristics
Secondary Reinforcer
Engaged Time
Reversibility
42. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Acronym
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
43. 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
Forgetting
Semantics
Working or Short-Term Memory
Psychomotor Objectives
44. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Cooperative Learning
Clustering
Brainstorming
Academic Learning Time
45. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Invincibility Fallacy
Responsibility
Demonstrations
46. Internalized self-talk.
Iconic Storage Register
Invincibility Fallacy
Inner Speech
Test Bias
47. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Type-S Conditioning
General Exploratory Activities
Metacognition
48. 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.
Respondent Behavior
Conditioning
Accelerated Programs
Transitivity
49. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Syntax
Direct Modeling
Maturation
Semantic Memory
50. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Retroactive Interference
Identity Achievement
Method of Loci