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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 process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Instructional Objectives
Guided Discovery
Personal Fable
Metacognition
2. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Maturation
Internal Locus of Control
Decay
Development
3. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Exhibition
Social Inferences
Performance Grading Scales
Respondent Behavior
4. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Shaping
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Anxiety Disorders
5. 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.
Development
IDEAL Strategy
Phonemes
Self-Determination Theory
6. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Articulation Difficulties
Models (Observational Learning)
Personal Fable
7. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Criterion-Related Validity
Cooing
Learning Disability
Intrinsic Motivation
8. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Visual Impairment
Elaborative Encoding
Withitness
Mastery Learning
9. 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.
Organization
Specific Learning Outcomes
Dyslexia
Active teaching
10. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Allocated Time
Gender Identity
Learning Disabilities
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
11. 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.
Secondary Reinforcer
Anxiety Disorders
Learning Disabilities
Exhibition
12. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Mastery Learning
Identity
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Guided Discovery
13. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Direct Modeling
Gender Identity
Criterion-Related Validity
Withitness
14. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Mastery Learning
Cultural Deficit Theories
Token Economy
T-Scores
15. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Confidence Interval
Behavior Disorders
Echoic Storage Register
Procedural Memory
16. 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
Expository Teaching
Method of Loci
Test-Retest Reliability
17. The study of the meaning behind words.
Anxiety Disorders
Semantics
Algorithm
Identity Diffusion
18. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Mastery Learning
Elaboration
Working or Short-Term Memory
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
19. 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.
Social Cognition
Active teaching
Synthetic Intelligence
Concept-Driven Models
20. 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.
Confidence Interval
Premack Principle
Direct Modeling
Criterion-Related Validity
21. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Identity
Maturation
Transfer of Information
Development
22. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
External Locus of Control
Cooperative Learning
Reinforcer
Response-Cost System
23. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Normal Distribution
Social Inferences
Two-sigma problem
Development
24. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Language System
Reversibility
Severe and Profound Retardation
Effort
25. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Functional Fixedness
Moderate Retardation
Scheduled Time
Operant Behavior
26. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Norm Group
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Cultural Differences Theories
Tracking
27. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Invincibility Fallacy
Group Training Experiences
Operant Behavior
Maturation
28. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Time-Out
Real Self-Efficacy
Test-Retest Reliability
Learned Helplessness
29. 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.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Babbling
Severe and Profound Retardation
Identity Diffusion
30. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Mastery Learning
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Clustering
Personal Fable
31. 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.
Syntax
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Content Validity
Social Learning and Expectancy
32. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Voice Disorders
Summative Evaluation
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
33. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Learning Disability
Criterion-Related Validity
Conservation
34. 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.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Descriptive Statistics
Behavioral Theory
Object-Relations Theory
35. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil
Attribution Theory
Class Inclusion
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Expressive Disorders
36. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Perception
Code Emphasis Strategy
Scheduled Time
Phonemes
37. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Social Inferences
Chunking
Analytical Intelligence
Direct Modeling
38. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Transfer of Information
Law of Effect
Human Needs Theory
39. Those one observes.
Models (Observational Learning)
Absolute Grading Standards
Brainstorming
Community-Based Education Programs
40. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
41. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Inclusion
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
42. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Vicarious Learning
Object-Relations Theory
Expected Outcomes
43. 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.
Two-Store Model
Ability
Intrinsic Motivation
Phonics Approach
44. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Elaboration
Centration
Guided Discovery
Foreclosure
45. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Motivation
At-Risk Students
Mild Retardation
46. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Phonics Approach
Reading
Synthesized Modeling
Social Learning and Expectancy
47. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Reliability
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Attribution Theory
Summative Evaluation
48. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Questioning Techniques
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Responsibility
Effort
49. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Expressive Disorders
Cooperative Learning
General Exploratory Activities
Transitivity
50. 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).
Formative Evaluation
Preconventional Morality
T-Scores
Identity Diffusion