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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. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Data-Driven Models
Teaching Efficacy
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Mild Retardation
2. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Normal Distribution
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Mastery Grading Scales
Language System
3. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Engaged Time
Extensive Retardation
Effort
4. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Epilepsy
Semantics
Allocated Time
Reinforcer
5. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Holophrastic Speech
Receptive Language Disorders
Voice Disorders
Synthetic Intelligence
6. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Identity Diffusion
Comparative Advance Organizers
Reading
Episodic Memory
7. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Mild Retardation
Enrichment Programs
Performance Grading Scales
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
8. The total length of the class.
Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Scheduled Time
Steiner-Waldorf Education
9. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Chunking
Analogies
Self-Efficacy
Object-Relations Theory
10. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Subschemata
Retroactive Interference
11. 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
Forgetting
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Active teaching
Respondent Behavior
12. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Confidence Interval
Extrinsic Motivation
Academic Learning Time
Reversibility
13. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Self-Efficacy
Achievement Motivation
Retrieval
Respondent Behavior
14. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Reversibility
Mild Retardation
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Pedagogy
15. 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.
Taxonomy
Gifted and Talented Children
Normal Distribution
Secondary Reinforcer
16. 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.
Method of Loci
Withitness
Absolute Grading Standards
Percentile Scores
17. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Type-R Conditioning
Invincibility Fallacy
Pivotal Response Therapy
Working-Backward Strategy
18. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Reversibility
Direct instruction
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Mnemonic Devices
19. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Hearing Impairment
Portfolio
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Self-Efficacy
20. 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.
Whole Language Approach
Achievement Test Battery
Seriation
Gender Role
21. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
Inattention
Direct Modeling
Direct instruction
Dual Coding Hypothesis
22. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Instruction
Exhibition
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Mastery Learning
23. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Semantic Memory
Subschemata
attrition
Respondent Behavior
24. 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.
Metacognition
Accelerated Programs
Test Bias
Analogies
25. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Visual Impairment
Postconventional Morality
Long-Term Memory
Syntax
26. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Voice Disorders
Conditioning
Rehearsal
Response Set
27. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Conventional Morality
Law of Effect
Accelerated Programs
Behavioral Theory
28. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Language System
Pervasive Retardation
Portfolio
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
29. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Two-Store Model
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Self-Determination Theory
30. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Development
Transitivity
Expected Outcomes
Static Assessment Approach
31. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Static Assessment Approach
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Achievement Tests
Vicarious Learning
32. 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 (
Centration
Classification
Static Assessment Approach
Postconventional Morality
33. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Time-Out
Cultural Deficit Theories
Reliability
Type-R Conditioning
34. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Critical pedagogy
Confidence Interval
Psychometrics
Elaboration
35. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.
Absolute Grading Standards
Centration
Taxonomy
Cognitive Objectives
36. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Engaged Time
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Elaborative Encoding
Pervasive Retardation
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
Behavioral Theory
Learning Disability
Extrinsic Motivation
Generative learning
38. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -
Moderate Retardation
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Derived Score
Conventional Morality
39. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Encoding
Questioning Techniques
Extensive Retardation
Cultural Deficit Theories
40. 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
Semantics
Two-Store Model
Algorithm
Enrichment Programs
41. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Synthetic Intelligence
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Percentile Scores
Dual Coding Hypothesis
42. The use of physical punishment.
Corporal Punishment
Cultural Differences Theories
Pedagogy
Maturation
43. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Means-Ends Analysis
Ability
Percentile Scores
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
44. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Reciprocal Determinism
Percentile Scores
Planned Ignoring
Social Cognition
45. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Derived Score
Group Consequences
Intrinsic Motivation
46. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Direct instruction
Gender Role
Language Experience Strategy
47. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Elaboration
Practical Intelligence
Accelerated Programs
Shaping
48. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Gender Identity
49. How capable one actually is.
Difficulty of the Task
Real Self-Efficacy
Gifted and Talented Children
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
50. 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
Pivotal Response Therapy
Motivation
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Language System