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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 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.
Encoding
Time-Out
Personal Fable
Teaching Efficacy
2. The study of the meaning behind words.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Mastery Learning
Semantics
Normal Distribution
3. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Phonics Approach
Teaching Efficacy
Human Needs Theory
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
4. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Impulsivity
Moratorium
General Objectives
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
5. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
T-Scores
Tracking
Concept-Driven Models
6. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Stability
Synthesized Modeling
Character Education Programs
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
7. 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
Inner Speech
Test-Retest Reliability
Gifted and Talented Children
8. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Identity Achievement
Pervasive Retardation
Expository Teaching
Rehearsal
9. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Pedagogy
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Response Set
10. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Derived Score
Direct instruction
Synthetic Intelligence
Maturation
11. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Receptive Language Disorders
Pedagogy
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Time-Out
12. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Cooperative Learning
Conditioning
Intrinsic Motivation
Mental Retardation
13. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Automaticity
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Achievement Test Battery
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
14. 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.
Type-R Conditioning
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Law of Effect
15. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Identity Achievement
Two-Store Model
Group Training Experiences
16. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Questioning Techniques
Active teaching
Anxiety Disorders
Identity Diffusion
17. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Direct Modeling
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Exhibition
18. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Group Training Experiences
Norm-Referenced Testing
Code Emphasis Strategy
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
19. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Corporal Punishment
Learning Disability
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Predictive Validity
20. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Gender Role
Phonics Approach
Means-Ends Analysis
Clustering
21. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Self-Determination Theory
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Descriptive Grading Scales
22. The total length of the class.
Semantic Memory
Mental Retardation
Instruction
Scheduled Time
23. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Law of Effect
Planned Ignoring
Reading
Perception
24. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for
Working-Backward Strategy
Vicarious Learning
Face Validity
Two-Store Model
25. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Ability
Attribution Theory
Mental Retardation
Intermittent Retardation
26. 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).
Aptitude Tests
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Conventional Morality
Accelerated Programs
27. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Summative Evaluation
Retrieval
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Forgetting
28. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Descriptive Statistics
Analogies
Ability
Functional Fixedness
29. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Impulsivity
Hearing Impairment
Concurrent Validity
Centration
30. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Cultural Differences Theories
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Response Set
Working-Backward Strategy
31. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Transformation
Direct Modeling
Intermittent Retardation
32. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Taxonomy
Mnemonic Devices
Fluency Disorders
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
33. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Class Inclusion
Voice Disorders
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Mild Retardation
34. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Advance Organizer
Brainstorming
Descriptive Statistics
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
35. 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.
Holophrastic Speech
Expository Teaching
Self-Determination Theory
Conservation
36. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Internal Locus of Control
Response Set
General Objectives
Cultural Deficit Theories
37. 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
Generative learning
Social Cognition
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Questioning Techniques
38. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Triarchic Theory
Schemata
Community-Based Education Programs
39. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Generalized Reinforcer
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Holophrastic Speech
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
40. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Fluency Disorders
Working or Short-Term Memory
Pervasive Retardation
Iconic Storage Register
41. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Secondary Reinforcer
Inattention
Reliability
Descriptive Grading Scales
42. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.
Constructivism
Affective Objectives
Mastery Learning
Synthetic Intelligence
43. 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).
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Public Law 94-142
Working-Backward Strategy
Voice Disorders
44. 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 (
Two-sigma problem
Postconventional Morality
Chunking
Z-Scores
45. The sensory register for auditory information.
Echoic Storage Register
Identity
Test Bias
Identity Achievement
46. 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.
Standard Error of Estimate
Practical Intelligence
Normal Distribution
Conventional Morality
47. 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.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Gifted and Talented Children
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Socioeconomic Status
48. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Construct Validity
Means-Ends Analysis
Simple Moral Education Programs
Heuristics
49. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Enrichment Programs
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Ability
Language System
50. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Contingency Contracting
Pedagogy
Direct instruction
Generalized Reinforcer