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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. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Conventional Morality
Impulsivity
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Construct Validity
2. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Extrinsic Motivation
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Planned Ignoring
Transformation
3. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Preconventional Morality
Attention
Keyword
Accelerated Programs
4. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Voice Disorders
Simple Moral Education Programs
Classification
5. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Method of Loci
Whole Language Approach
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Mental Retardation
6. 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
Encoding
Holophrastic Speech
Procedural Memory
7. 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
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Achievement Tests
Generative learning
Premack Principle
8. 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
Inattention
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Mental Retardation
9. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Active teaching
Reinforcer
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Allocated Time
10. 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
Law of Effect
Chunking
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Receptive Language Disorders
11. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Cultural Differences Theories
Constructivism
Law of Effect
Voice Disorders
12. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Triarchic Theory
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Secondary Reinforcer
Automaticity
13. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Validity
Retroactive Interference
Morphemes
Character
14. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Iconic Storage Register
Two-sigma problem
Instructional Theory
Mental Retardation
15. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
General Objectives
Planned Ignoring
General Exploratory Activities
Feedback Loop
16. 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.
Transfer of Information
Achievement Motivation
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Self-Regulation
17. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Type-R Conditioning
Test-Retest Reliability
Response-Cost System
Difficulty of the Task
18. 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.
Dyslexia
Identity
Perception
Difficulty of the Task
19. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Token Economy
Preconventional Morality
Achievement Motivation
20. 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.
Aptitude Tests
Operant Behavior
Elaboration
Shaping
21. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Deficiency Needs
Exceptional Learners
Analogies
Cooing
22. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Expository Teaching
Cooperative Learning
Demonstrations
Difficulty of the Task
23. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Functional Fixedness
Reciprocal Teaching
Behavior Disorders
24. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Development
Working-Backward Strategy
Invincibility Fallacy
Absolute Grading Standards
25. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Identity Diffusion
Analytical Intelligence
Self-Determination Theory
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
26. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Proactive Interference
Content Validity
Whole Language Approach
Postconventional Morality
27. 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.
Internalization
Real Self-Efficacy
Formative Evaluation
Moratorium
28. 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
Keyword
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Receptive Language Disorders
29. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Criterion-Related Validity
Tracking
Symbolic Modeling
30. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Cognitive Objectives
Learning Disabilities
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
31. 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.
Standard Error of Estimate
Taxonomy
Language Experience Strategy
Performance-Based Test Strategies
32. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Response Set
Communication
Intermittent Retardation
Perceived Self-Efficacy
33. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Retrieval
Mastery Grading Scales
Behavioral Theory
34. 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.
Achievement Motivation
Derived Score
Pragmatics
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
35. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Preconventional Morality
Performance Grading Scales
Face Validity
Inclusion
36. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Analytical Intelligence
Problem Solving
Achievement Motivation
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
37. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Tracking
Engaged Time
Gender Identity
Expressive Disorders
38. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Criterion-Related Validity
Token Economy
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Conditioning
39. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Retroactive Interference
At-Risk Students
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
40. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Exhibition
Achievement Test Battery
Task Analysis
Carroll's Model of School Learning
41. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
External Locus of Control
Schemata
Educational Goals
42. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Transformation
Self-Determination Theory
Real Self-Efficacy
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
43. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Conditioning
Intrinsic Motivation
Elaborative Encoding
Decay
44. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Transfer of Information
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Active teaching
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
45. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Premack Principle
Brainstorming
Construct Validity
Algorithm
46. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Affective Objectives
Jigsaw II
Group Training Experiences
Luck
47. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Cooperative Learning
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Direct instruction
Social Cognition
48. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Performance Grading Scales
Triarchic Theory
Cooing
Perception
49. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Behavior Disorders
Elaborative Encoding
Advance Organizer
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
50. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
External Locus of Control
Acronym
Expository Advance Organizers