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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. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Articulation Difficulties
Test Bias
Real Self-Efficacy
2. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
General Exploratory Activities
Phonemes
Descriptive Grading Scales
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
3. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Responsibility
Sensory Register
Reversibility
Personal Fable
4. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Psychometrics
Expected Outcomes
Rehearsal
5. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Secondary Reinforcer
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Psychometrics
6. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Echoic Storage Register
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Pervasive Retardation
7. 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.
Two-Store Model
Instructional Theory
Organization
Seriation
8. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Classification
Educational Goals
Cultural Deficit Theories
Descriptive Statistics
9. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Schemata
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Derived Score
Achievement Test Battery
10. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Invincibility Fallacy
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Summative Evaluation
Automaticity
11. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Real Self-Efficacy
Intrinsic Motivation
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Mastery Grading Scales
12. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Expressive Disorders
Synthesized Modeling
Norm Group
Task Analysis
13. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Test Bias
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Mnemonic Devices
At-Risk Students
14. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Mental Retardation
Pedagogy
Impulsivity
Preconventional Morality
15. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Primary Reinforcer
Gender Role
Concept-Driven Models
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
16. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Social Inferences
Psychometrics
Automaticity
Generalized Reinforcer
17. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Character Education Programs
Attribution Theory
Severe and Profound Retardation
18. 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
Criterion-Related Validity
Respondent Behavior
Transfer of Information
19. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Reliability
Visual Impairment
Episodic Memory
Maturation
20. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Responsibility
Inattention
Expository Advance Organizers
Epilepsy
21. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Identity
Iconic Storage Register
Chunking
22. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Acronym
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Expository Teaching
23. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Moratorium
Organization
Conventional Morality
Episodic Memory
24. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Operant Behavior
Models (Instruction)
Concurrent Validity
Foreclosure
25. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Self-Regulation
Hyperactivity
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
26. How capable one actually is.
Respondent Behavior
Real Self-Efficacy
Achievement Motivation
Development
27. Internalized self-talk.
Inner Speech
Allocated Time
Assertive Discipline
Shaping
28. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Dyslexia
Gender Role
Achievement Tests
Internal Locus of Control
29. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Extensive Retardation
Social Inferences
Means-Ends Analysis
Heuristics
30. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Chunking
Hyperactivity
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Individual and Small-Group Activities
31. The use of physical punishment.
Face Validity
Internal Locus of Control
Z-Scores
Corporal Punishment
32. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Human Needs Theory
Jigsaw II
Withitness
Content Validity
33. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Expository Teaching
Respondent Behavior
Metacognition
Attribution Theory
34. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Clustering
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Reciprocal Determinism
Expository Advance Organizers
35. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Receptive Language Disorders
Identity Diffusion
Direct Modeling
Engaged Time
36. 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
Test-Retest Reliability
Stability
Long-Term Memory
Language System
37. The sensory register for visual information.
Practical Intelligence
Babbling
Iconic Storage Register
Pivotal Response Therapy
38. 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
Self-Efficacy
Mastery Grading Scales
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
39. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Validity
Retroactive Interference
Gender Identity
40. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Identity Achievement
Cultural Differences Theories
Expository Advance Organizers
Elaboration
41. 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.
Absolute Grading Standards
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Scheduled Time
Specific Learning Outcomes
42. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Cultural Differences Theories
Mild Retardation
Holophrastic Speech
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
43. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Expected Outcomes
Working-Backward Strategy
Triarchic Theory
Face Validity
44. 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 unstable and intrinsic to the student.
Social Inferences
Effort
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Episodic Memory
45. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Morphemes
Inner Speech
Educational Psychology
Conditioning
46. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Difficulty of the Task
Phonics Approach
Pedagogy
Chunking
47. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Group Training Experiences
Method of Loci
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
External Locus of Control
48. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Response Set
Two-sigma problem
Self-Efficacy
Means-Ends Analysis
49. 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.
Gender Role
Mental Retardation
Affective Objectives
Formative Evaluation
50. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Retroactive Interference
Allocated Time
Gender Identity
Norm-Referenced Testing