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. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Phonemes
Response Set
Tracking
Internalization
2. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Direct Modeling
Holophrastic Speech
Pervasive Retardation
Forgetting
3. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Language System
Advance Organizer
Predictive Validity
4. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Teaching Efficacy
Character
Behavioral Theory
5. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Standard Error of Estimate
Moratorium
Law of Effect
Self-Efficacy
6. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Psychomotor Objectives
External Locus of Control
Luck
7. 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.
Reliability
Moderate Retardation
General Objectives
Content Validity
8. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Respondent Behavior
Exceptional Learners
Observational Learning
9. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Gender Role
Gender Identity
Growth Needs
10. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Normal Distribution
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
11. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Chunking
Stability
Sensory Register
12. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Mastery Grading Scales
Dyslexia
Analytical Intelligence
13. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Direct Modeling
Analytical Intelligence
Models (Instruction)
Expressive Disorders
14. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Achievement Tests
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Phonemes
Token Economy
15. The inability to retrieve learned information.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Limited Retardation
Forgetting
Observational Learning
16. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Articulation Difficulties
Group Consequences
Academic Learning Time
Elaborative Encoding
17. 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.
Object-Relations Theory
Dyslexia
Withitness
Responsibility
18. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Organization
Expository Advance Organizers
Transformation
Summative Evaluation
19. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Holophrastic Speech
Perception
Semantics
Critical pedagogy
20. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.
Class Inclusion
Guided Discovery
Enrichment Programs
Models (Instruction)
21. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Pivotal Response Therapy
Cognitive Objectives
Semantic Memory
Language System
22. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Achievement Test Battery
Voice Disorders
Classification
Cultural Deficit Theories
23. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Articulation Difficulties
Gender Bias
Acronym
Portfolio
24. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Seriation
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Questioning Techniques
Aptitude Tests
25. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Visual Impairment
Reinforcer
Schemata
Models (Observational Learning)
26. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Reliability
Inattention
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Organization
27. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Cognitive Objectives
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Normal Distribution
External Locus of Control
28. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Reciprocal Determinism
Synthesized Modeling
Perception
Organization
29. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Response Set
Normal Distribution
Metacognition
Behavioral Theory
30. The study of how students learn and develop.
Educational Psychology
Engaged Time
Guided Discovery
Working or Short-Term Memory
31. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Standard Error of Estimate
Articulation Difficulties
Learned Helplessness
32. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Learning Disabilities
Specific Learning Outcomes
Moratorium
Echoic Storage Register
33. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Means-Ends Analysis
Concept-Driven Models
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Human Needs Theory
34. 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).
Premack Principle
Preconventional Morality
Deficiency Needs
Luck
35. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Group Training Experiences
Pragmatics
Character Education Programs
Pervasive Retardation
36. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Holophrastic Speech
Pivotal Response Therapy
Motivation
Academic Learning Time
37. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Critical pedagogy
Automaticity
Content Validity
Advance Organizer
38. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Feedback Loop
Encoding
Episodic Memory
39. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Articulation Difficulties
Practical Intelligence
Affective Objectives
Scheduled Time
40. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Sensory Register
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Test Bias
41. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Affective Objectives
Intrinsic Motivation
Exceptional Learners
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
42. 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.
Content Validity
Pedagogy
Critical pedagogy
Psychometrics
43. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Fluency Disorders
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Mastery Grading Scales
Extensive Retardation
44. 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.
Retroactive Interference
Formative Evaluation
Real Self-Efficacy
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
45. The total length of the class.
Scheduled Time
Direct Modeling
Critical pedagogy
Mastery Learning
46. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Attribution Theory
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Type-R Conditioning
Mental Retardation
47. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Gender Bias
Schemata
Echoic Storage Register
Generalized Reinforcer
48. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Seriation
Character
Classification
49. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Portfolio
Group Consequences
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
50. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Engaged Time
Intermittent Retardation
Effort
Character Education Programs