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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 reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Secondary Reinforcer
Social Learning and Expectancy
IDEAL Strategy
Carroll's Model of School Learning
2. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Luck
Gender Bias
Problem Solving
Syntax
3. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Reversibility
Models (Observational Learning)
Language Experience Strategy
4. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Instructional Objectives
Analogies
Pragmatics
Inattention
5. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Analogies
Extrinsic Motivation
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Perceived Self-Efficacy
6. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Gender Identity
Personal Fable
Advance Organizer
Episodic Memory
7. The sensory register for auditory information.
Criterion-Related Validity
Attention
Echoic Storage Register
Encoding
8. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Rehearsal
Elaborative Encoding
Mild Retardation
Educational Goals
9. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Gender Role
Concurrent Validity
10. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Luck
Synthesized Modeling
Psychomotor Objectives
Respondent Behavior
11. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Type-S Conditioning
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Static Assessment Approach
12. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Learning Disability
Problem Solving
Derived Score
Withitness
13. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Token Economy
Pragmatics
Gender Role
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
14. 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.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Responsibility
Simple Moral Education Programs
Perceived Self-Efficacy
15. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Descriptive Statistics
Critical pedagogy
Time-Out
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
16. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Decay
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Symbolic Modeling
Voice Disorders
17. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Academic Learning Time
Type-R Conditioning
Self-Regulation
18. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Elaborative Encoding
Formative Evaluation
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Articulation Difficulties
19. 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
Direct instruction
Pivotal Response Therapy
Conventional Morality
Voice Disorders
20. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Means-Ends Analysis
Transfer of Information
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
21. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Socioeconomic Status
Norm Group
Data-Driven Models
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
22. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Morphemes
Shaping
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Visual Impairment
23. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Respondent Behavior
Achievement Test Battery
Guided Discovery
Character
24. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Clustering
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Mild Retardation
Scheduled Time
25. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Expository Advance Organizers
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Inner Speech
26. 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
Synthesized Modeling
Inattention
Automaticity
27. 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.
Motivation
Social Learning and Expectancy
Instructional Theory
Encoding
28. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
Construct Validity
Mental Retardation
Portfolio
Clustering
29. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Construct Validity
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Vicarious Learning
Voice Disorders
30. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Group Training Experiences
Working-Backward Strategy
Operant Behavior
31. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Epilepsy
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Engaged Time
Group Consequences
32. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Instructional Objectives
Reciprocal Teaching
Transfer of Information
33. 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.
Long-Term Memory
Intermittent Retardation
Gifted and Talented Children
Test-Retest Reliability
34. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Development
Expected Outcomes
Group Consequences
Public Law 94-142
35. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.
Data-Driven Models
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Class Inclusion
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
36. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
External Locus of Control
Effort
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Learning Disabilities
37. 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 (
Expressive Disorders
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Percentile Scores
Postconventional Morality
38. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Withitness
Seriation
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Moratorium
39. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Internalization
Effort
Holophrastic Speech
Analogies
40. 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.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Academic Learning Time
Phonics Approach
41. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Two-sigma problem
Secondary Reinforcer
Expository Teaching
Premack Principle
42. 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.
Test Bias
Guided Discovery
Real Self-Efficacy
Sensory Register
43. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Semantic Memory
Observational Learning
Token Economy
Automaticity
44. The study of how students learn and develop.
Type-S Conditioning
Cognitive Objectives
Maturation
Educational Psychology
45. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Classification
Cooing
Epilepsy
Clustering
46. 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
Learned Helplessness
Moratorium
Generative learning
Episodic Memory
47. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Elaboration
Mastery Grading Scales
Personal Fable
Summative Evaluation
48. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Ability
Exceptional Learners
Articulation Difficulties
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
49. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Operant Behavior
Hearing Impairment
Accelerated Programs
50. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Instructional Theory
Absolute Grading Standards
Dyslexia