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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Generative learning
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Standard Error of Estimate
2. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Semantics
Morphemes
Standard Error of Estimate
Allocated Time
3. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
T-Scores
Code Emphasis Strategy
Percentile Scores
Scheduled Time
4. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Gifted and Talented Children
Personal Fable
5. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Normal Distribution
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Forgetting
6. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Foreclosure
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Accelerated Programs
7. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Cooing
Advance Organizer
Response-Cost System
Hearing Impairment
8. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
attrition
Algorithm
Identity
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
9. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Premack Principle
Active teaching
10. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Educational Goals
Motivation
Questioning Techniques
Psychomotor Objectives
11. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Growth Needs
Moderate Retardation
Organization
Descriptive Grading Scales
12. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Pervasive Retardation
Hearing Impairment
Stability
Automaticity
13. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Extensive Retardation
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Withitness
Respondent Behavior
14. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Guided Discovery
Elaboration
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Derived Score
15. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
attrition
Fluency Disorders
Normal Distribution
Direct Modeling
16. 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.
Transitivity
Contingency Contracting
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Whole Language Approach
17. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Gifted and Talented Children
Working or Short-Term Memory
Inclusion
Carroll's Model of School Learning
18. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Triarchic Theory
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Gifted and Talented Children
Two-sigma problem
19. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Real Self-Efficacy
Descriptive Statistics
Predictive Validity
Anxiety Disorders
20. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Problem Solving
Static Assessment Approach
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Achievement Test Battery
21. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Holophrastic Speech
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Portfolio
Postconventional Morality
22. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Hyperactivity
Confidence Interval
Transformation
Planned Ignoring
23. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Group Training Experiences
Simple Moral Education Programs
Decay
Transfer of Information
24. 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.
Self-Determination Theory
Babbling
Deficiency Needs
Classification
25. 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.
Behavioral Theory
Development
Impulsivity
Cooperative Learning
26. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Cognitive Objectives
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Responsibility
Phonology
27. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Algorithm
Enrichment Programs
Norm Group
28. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Semantic Memory
Receptive Language Disorders
Character
Derived Score
29. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
At-Risk Students
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Type-S Conditioning
30. 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.
Anxiety Disorders
Formative Evaluation
Intrinsic Motivation
Teaching Efficacy
31. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Analytical Intelligence
Learned Helplessness
Specific Learning Outcomes
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
32. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Reliability
Behavior Disorders
Expressive Disorders
Teaching Efficacy
33. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Inner Speech
Elaborative Encoding
Triarchic Theory
Sensory Register
34. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Two-sigma problem
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Cooperative Learning
Instruction
35. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Working-Backward Strategy
Engaged Time
Subschemata
Concept-Driven Models
36. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Gender Role
Development
Conditioning
Mastery Learning
37. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Behavioral Theory
Extensive Retardation
38. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Inattention
Elaborative Encoding
Receptive Language Disorders
Allocated Time
39. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Clustering
Encoding
Syntax
Mental Retardation
40. 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 external to the student.
Educational Goals
Planned Ignoring
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Difficulty of the Task
41. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Concurrent Validity
Conditioning
Advance Organizer
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
42. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Character Education Programs
Encoding
Phonemes
43. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Generalized Reinforcer
Instructional Objectives
Content Validity
44. 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 unstable and intrinsic to the student.
Effort
General Objectives
Attention
Impulsivity
45. 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.
Affective Objectives
Gifted and Talented Children
Gender Identity
Practical Intelligence
46. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.
General Objectives
Reading
Gender Identity
Group Training Experiences
47. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Moratorium
Clustering
attrition
Mastery Grading Scales
48. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Self-Regulation
Holophrastic Speech
49. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Expressive Disorders
Educational Psychology
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Norm-Referenced Testing
50. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Subschemata
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Luck
Contingency Contracting