SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
teaching
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Instructional Objectives
Models (Instruction)
Hyperactivity
Expository Advance Organizers
2. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Psychomotor Objectives
Luck
Reciprocal Determinism
Visual Impairment
3. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Algorithm
Transitivity
Functional Fixedness
Procedural Memory
4. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Group Training Experiences
Maturation
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Severe and Profound Retardation
5. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Perception
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Organization
6. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Heuristics
Observational Learning
7. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Organization
Language Experience Strategy
Expected Outcomes
Student Team Achievement Decisions
8. 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.
General Exploratory Activities
Gifted and Talented Children
Models (Observational Learning)
Phonology
9. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Public Law 94-142
Classification
Automaticity
Learning Disability
10. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Learning Disabilities
Decay
Motivation
11. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Concept-Driven Models
Pervasive Retardation
Syntax
Holophrastic Speech
12. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Advance Organizer
Respondent Behavior
Norm-Referenced Testing
13. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Postconventional Morality
Derived Score
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Demonstrations
14. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).
Achievement Test Battery
Preconventional Morality
Exhibition
Learned Helplessness
15. 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.
Mastery Grading Scales
Absolute Grading Standards
Validity
Self-Efficacy
16. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Contingency Contracting
Guided Discovery
Taxonomy
Receptive Language Disorders
17. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Elaborative Encoding
Validity
Achievement Motivation
Subschemata
18. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Identity Diffusion
Summative Evaluation
Classification
Law of Effect
19. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Secondary Reinforcer
External Locus of Control
Law of Effect
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
20. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Classification
Perception
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Phonemes
21. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Language System
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Test-Retest Reliability
Maturation
22. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Perception
Instructional Theory
Observational Learning
23. How capable one actually is.
Transformation
Static Assessment Approach
Perception
Real Self-Efficacy
24. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Performance Grading Scales
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Response Set
Concept-Driven Models
25. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Human Needs Theory
Instruction
Holophrastic Speech
General Exploratory Activities
26. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Jigsaw II
Generalized Reinforcer
Communication
Pervasive Retardation
27. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Z-Scores
Fluency Disorders
Clustering
Moratorium
28. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Engaged Time
Formative Evaluation
Conventional Morality
Instruction
29. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Models (Observational Learning)
Maturation
Proactive Interference
30. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Reading
Schemata
Concurrent Validity
Reciprocal Teaching
31. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Educational Goals
Intrinsic Motivation
Identity Diffusion
Semantic Memory
32. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Summative Evaluation
Inattention
Hearing Impairment
Generative learning
33. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Sensory Register
Hyperactivity
Data-Driven Models
Attribution Theory
34. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Premack Principle
Human Needs Theory
Psychomotor Objectives
Internal Locus of Control
35. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Face Validity
Learning Disabilities
Moratorium
Content Validity
36. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Achievement Test Battery
Standard Error of Estimate
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Internalization
37. 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.
Class Inclusion
Transformation
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Hearing Impairment
38. 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
Task Analysis
Transformation
Direct instruction
attrition
39. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Difficulty of the Task
Mastery Learning
Contingency Contracting
40. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Construct Validity
Gender Identity
Severe and Profound Retardation
Group Training Experiences
41. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Effort
Fluency Disorders
Educational Goals
Attention
42. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Expected Outcomes
Jigsaw II
Semantic Memory
Achievement Tests
43. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Predictive Validity
Babbling
Limited Retardation
Code Emphasis Strategy
44. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Voice Disorders
Specific Learning Outcomes
Cultural Differences Theories
45. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Phonemes
Transformation
Behavioral Theory
46. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Schemata
Observational Learning
Pragmatics
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
47. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Group Consequences
Simple Moral Education Programs
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Identity
48. 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.
Test-Retest Reliability
Synthetic Intelligence
IDEAL Strategy
Scheduled Time
49. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Invincibility Fallacy
Static Assessment Approach
Communication
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
50. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Real Self-Efficacy
Syntax
Decay
Forgetting