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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Preconventional Morality
Analytical Intelligence
Gender Bias
Extrinsic Motivation
2. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Active teaching
Demonstrations
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Means-Ends Analysis
3. 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
Social Learning and Expectancy
Means-Ends Analysis
Pivotal Response Therapy
Reading
4. The use of physical punishment.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Corporal Punishment
Language Experience Strategy
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
5. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Invincibility Fallacy
Portfolio
Preconventional Morality
Reciprocal Teaching
6. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Response-Cost System
Withitness
Language Experience Strategy
7. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Two-Store Model
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Development
General (or High-Road) Transfer
8. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Mild Retardation
Invincibility Fallacy
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Data-Driven Models
9. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Deficiency Needs
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Elaborative Encoding
Internal Locus of Control
10. 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.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Descriptive Statistics
Specific Learning Outcomes
Character Education Programs
11. 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
Taxonomy
Decay
Specific Learning Outcomes
Active teaching
12. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Stability
Working-Backward Strategy
Cultural Deficit Theories
Syntax
13. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Tracking
Test-Retest Reliability
14. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Inclusion
Carroll's Model of School Learning
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
15. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Assertive Discipline
Clustering
Secondary Reinforcer
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
16. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Self-Determination Theory
Cooperative Learning
Cognitive Objectives
Perception
17. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.
Language Experience Strategy
Subschemata
Character
Mental Retardation
18. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Mental Retardation
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Retrieval
19. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Affective Objectives
Whole Language Approach
Conservation
Limited Retardation
20. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Shaping
Babbling
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Character
21. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Effort
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Luck
Clustering
22. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Retroactive Interference
Simple Moral Education Programs
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
23. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Gender Role
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Preconventional Morality
Self-Efficacy
24. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Subschemata
External Locus of Control
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
25. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Content Validity
Perception
Attribution Theory
Identity
26. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Descriptive Statistics
Achievement Test Battery
Episodic Memory
Models (Observational Learning)
27. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Working-Backward Strategy
Mild Retardation
Active teaching
Organization
28. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Community-Based Education Programs
Effort
Group Consequences
Expected Outcomes
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.
Task Analysis
Two-sigma problem
Criterion-Related Validity
Psychometrics
30. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.
Social Inferences
Active teaching
Performance Grading Scales
Epilepsy
31. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
General Objectives
Phonemes
Procedural Memory
32. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
At-Risk Students
Response-Cost System
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Retroactive Interference
33. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Mental Retardation
Behavioral Theory
Social Learning and Expectancy
Hyperactivity
34. The total length of the class.
Responsibility
Scheduled Time
Functional Fixedness
Proactive Interference
35. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Brainstorming
IDEAL Strategy
Extensive Retardation
Moderate Retardation
36. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Schemata
Proactive Interference
Planned Ignoring
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
37. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Method of Loci
Vicarious Learning
Hearing Impairment
Response Set
38. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Expository Teaching
Attention
Visual Impairment
Exceptional Learners
39. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Assertive Discipline
Heuristics
Learned Helplessness
Engaged Time
40. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Chunking
Gender Role
Pivotal Response Therapy
Models (Instruction)
41. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Respondent Behavior
Formative Evaluation
Symbolic Modeling
Holophrastic Speech
42. 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
Allocated Time
Generative learning
Assertive Discipline
Concept-Driven Models
43. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Classification
Babbling
Response Set
Critical pedagogy
44. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Babbling
Subschemata
Moderate Retardation
Mental Retardation
45. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Anxiety Disorders
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Retrieval
Scheduled Time
46. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Teaching Efficacy
Babbling
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Response-Cost System
47. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Receptive Language Disorders
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
48. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Chunking
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
49. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Enrichment Programs
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Student Team Achievement Decisions
50. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Content Validity
Educational Psychology
Episodic Memory