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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Academic Learning Time
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Mental Retardation
Fluency Disorders
2. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Time-Out
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Mental Retardation
Token Economy
3. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Identity Diffusion
Face Validity
Reciprocal Determinism
Reliability
4. 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.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Data-Driven Models
Transformation
Cultural Deficit Theories
5. 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).
Critical pedagogy
Public Law 94-142
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Achievement Tests
6. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Achievement Test Battery
Face Validity
Test Bias
Subschemata
7. The sensory register for auditory information.
Effort
Echoic Storage Register
Operant Behavior
IDEAL Strategy
8. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done
Demonstrations
Foreclosure
Synthesized Modeling
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
9. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Clustering
Public Law 94-142
Receptive Language Disorders
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
10. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Mastery Learning
Learning Disability
Test-Retest Reliability
Two-Store Model
11. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Mastery Learning
Method of Loci
External Locus of Control
Concurrent Validity
12. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Instructional Theory
Public Law 94-142
Mnemonic Devices
Taxonomy
13. 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.
attrition
Intermittent Retardation
Accelerated Programs
Retrieval
14. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.
Criterion-Related Validity
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Learning Disabilities
Group Training Experiences
15. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.
Maturation
Object-Relations Theory
Transformation
Socioeconomic Status
16. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Gender Bias
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Centration
Corporal Punishment
17. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Self-Determination Theory
Extrinsic Motivation
Social Cognition
Specific Learning Outcomes
18. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Feedback Loop
Conservation
Language System
Forgetting
19. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Functional Fixedness
Affective Objectives
Norm-Referenced Testing
Aptitude Tests
20. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Working-Backward Strategy
Long-Term Memory
Concept-Driven Models
Descriptive Statistics
21. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Means-Ends Analysis
Preconventional Morality
Face Validity
Portfolio
22. 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
Instructional Objectives
Limited Retardation
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
23. How relevant a test is at face value.
Accelerated Programs
Planned Ignoring
Face Validity
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
24. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Data-Driven Models
External Locus of Control
Postconventional Morality
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
25. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Exhibition
Models (Observational Learning)
Invincibility Fallacy
26. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Reliability
Assertive Discipline
Summative Evaluation
Derived Score
27. 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.
Subschemata
Learning Disability
Long-Term Memory
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
28. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Means-Ends Analysis
Long-Term Memory
Active teaching
Clustering
29. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Shaping
Real Self-Efficacy
Voice Disorders
Expository Advance Organizers
30. 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.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Development
Constructivism
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
31. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Shaping
Language Experience Strategy
Conditioning
Human Needs Theory
32. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Organization
Problem Solving
Gender Role
Performance Grading Scales
33. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Anxiety Disorders
Time-Out
Tracking
Social Inferences
34. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Moratorium
Simple Moral Education Programs
Community-Based Education Programs
Receptive Language Disorders
35. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Moratorium
Generalized Reinforcer
Sensory Register
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
36. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Rehearsal
Instruction
Mental Retardation
Internal Locus of Control
37. The total length of the class.
Active teaching
Whole Language Approach
Scheduled Time
Intermittent Retardation
38. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Classification
Problem Solving
Retrieval
Learning Disabilities
39. The study of the meaning behind words.
Advance Organizer
Semantics
Perception
Aptitude Tests
40. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Test-Retest Reliability
Exhibition
Reading
Conditioning
41. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Allocated Time
Subschemata
Reinforcer
Direct Modeling
42. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Moderate Retardation
Limited Retardation
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
43. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Z-Scores
Impulsivity
Babbling
General Exploratory Activities
44. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Gender Identity
Models (Instruction)
Centration
Token Economy
45. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Demonstrations
Classification
Mastery Grading Scales
Inattention
46. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Analogies
Operant Behavior
Dyslexia
Educational Goals
47. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Models (Observational Learning)
Elaboration
Metacognition
Derived Score
48. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Learned Helplessness
Achievement Test Battery
Formative Evaluation
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
49. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Test Bias
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Expected Outcomes
Socioeconomic Status
50. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Cultural Differences Theories
Exceptional Learners
Primary Reinforcer
Premack Principle