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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. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Mastery Learning
Reliability
Algorithm
Morphemes
2. Those one observes.
Automaticity
Models (Observational Learning)
Face Validity
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
3. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
T-Scores
Token Economy
Means-Ends Analysis
4. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Character Education Programs
Stability
Phonology
Response-Cost System
5. 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.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Growth Needs
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Mastery Learning
6. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Exhibition
External Locus of Control
Instructional Objectives
Semantics
7. 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
Summative Evaluation
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
8. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Functional Fixedness
Gender Identity
Token Economy
Cognitive Objectives
9. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Educational Goals
Functional Fixedness
Corporal Punishment
10. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Identity Achievement
Secondary Reinforcer
11. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Premack Principle
Social Cognition
Respondent Behavior
Withitness
12. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is stable and intrinsic to the student.
Ability
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Enrichment Programs
Concept-Driven Models
13. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Affective Objectives
Morphemes
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Gender Role
14. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Mild Retardation
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Phonemes
Time-Out
15. 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
Perception
Public Law 94-142
Accelerated Programs
16. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Expressive Disorders
Educational Psychology
Group Consequences
Maturation
17. 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.
Ability
IDEAL Strategy
Method of Loci
Internal Locus of Control
18. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Working-Backward Strategy
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Pragmatics
Learning Disability
19. 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.
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Aptitude Tests
Development
Instructional Theory
20. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Episodic Memory
Aptitude Tests
Test Bias
Dynamic Assessment Approach
21. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Feedback Loop
Community-Based Education Programs
Retrieval
Transitivity
22. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.
Conditioning
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Human Needs Theory
Taxonomy
23. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Reading
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Secondary Reinforcer
Retroactive Interference
24. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Identity
Social Inferences
Morphemes
Static Assessment Approach
25. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Voice Disorders
Maturation
Self-Determination Theory
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
26. 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.
Critical pedagogy
Instructional Objectives
Secondary Reinforcer
Extensive Retardation
27. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Working-Backward Strategy
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Mental Retardation
28. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Seriation
Inner Speech
Brainstorming
Expository Teaching
29. 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.
Invincibility Fallacy
Reliability
Absolute Grading Standards
Two-Store Model
30. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Reading
Internal Locus of Control
Norm Group
Group Consequences
31. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Reading
Enrichment Programs
Character Education Programs
Achievement Motivation
32. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Reciprocal Determinism
Normal Distribution
Two-sigma problem
Reversibility
33. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Conditioning
Affective Objectives
Criterion-Related Validity
Forgetting
34. 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.
Personal Fable
Content Validity
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Character
35. 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.
Intrinsic Motivation
Metacognition
Elaboration
Attribution Theory
36. 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.
Response-Cost System
Conservation
Invincibility Fallacy
Public Law 94-142
37. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Models (Observational Learning)
Psychometrics
Cultural Differences Theories
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
38. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
Mental Retardation
Rehearsal
Construct Validity
Ability
39. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Motivation
Mental Retardation
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Inclusion
40. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Conservation
Preconventional Morality
Pragmatics
Classification
41. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Reciprocal Teaching
Inattention
Attribution Theory
Visual Impairment
42. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Achievement Test Battery
At-Risk Students
Two-sigma problem
Cultural Differences Theories
43. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Centration
Secondary Reinforcer
Public Law 94-142
Transfer of Information
44. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Constructivism
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Working-Backward Strategy
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
45. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Concept-Driven Models
Perception
Extrinsic Motivation
46. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Character Education Programs
Articulation Difficulties
Time-Out
47. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Critical pedagogy
Time-Out
Behavior Disorders
48. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Enrichment Programs
Reciprocal Teaching
Working or Short-Term Memory
Articulation Difficulties
49. 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
Descriptive Statistics
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Long-Term Memory
50. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Object-Relations Theory
Identity Achievement
Two-sigma problem
Practical Intelligence