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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. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Deficiency Needs
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
2. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Pedagogy
Token Economy
Type-R Conditioning
Pragmatics
3. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Learned Helplessness
Generalized Reinforcer
Normal Distribution
Specific Learning Outcomes
4. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Elaborative Encoding
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Proactive Interference
IDEAL Strategy
5. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Token Economy
Extrinsic Motivation
Reciprocal Determinism
6. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Problem Solving
Demonstrations
Gender Role
Simple Moral Education Programs
7. 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)
8. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Maturation
Semantic Memory
Deficiency Needs
Object-Relations Theory
9. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Respondent Behavior
Communication
Method of Loci
Analytical Intelligence
10. The sensory register for visual information.
Development
Type-R Conditioning
Attention
Iconic Storage Register
11. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Heuristics
Two-Store Model
Motivation
Functional Fixedness
12. 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.
Ability
Learning Disability
Seriation
Reinforcer
13. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Identity Diffusion
Forgetting
Type-R Conditioning
Keyword
14. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Fluency Disorders
Identity Achievement
Social Learning and Expectancy
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
15. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Moderate Retardation
Mnemonic Devices
Academic Learning Time
Hearing Impairment
16. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
Achievement Test Battery
Feedback Loop
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Norm-Referenced Testing
17. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Visual Impairment
Two-Store Model
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
18. 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.
Construct Validity
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Language Experience Strategy
19. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Expected Outcomes
Task Analysis
Assertive Discipline
Performance Grading Scales
20. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Attention
Absolute Grading Standards
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Reading
21. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Inner Speech
Data-Driven Models
Derived Score
Holophrastic Speech
22. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Observational Learning
Expository Advance Organizers
Self-Regulation
23. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Generative learning
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Hyperactivity
24. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Postconventional Morality
Iconic Storage Register
External Locus of Control
Perception
25. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Episodic Memory
Tracking
Performance-Based Test Strategies
26. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Educational Psychology
Response Set
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Simple Moral Education Programs
27. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Reinforcer
Time-Out
Reliability
28. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Direct Modeling
Concurrent Validity
Perception
Absolute Grading Standards
29. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Working-Backward Strategy
Cooperative Learning
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Primary Reinforcer
30. 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
Social Cognition
Object-Relations Theory
Data-Driven Models
31. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Feedback Loop
Guided Discovery
Moratorium
Exceptional Learners
32. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Identity Diffusion
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Human Needs Theory
Transitional Bilingual Programs
33. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Syntax
Performance Grading Scales
Guided Discovery
34. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Cognitive Objectives
General Exploratory Activities
Episodic Memory
Chunking
35. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Teaching Efficacy
Reciprocal Teaching
Criterion-Related Validity
Learning Disability
36. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Reinforcer
Comparative Advance Organizers
Problem Solving
At-Risk Students
37. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Semantic Memory
Simple Moral Education Programs
Internal Locus of Control
Foreclosure
38. 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.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Data-Driven Models
Exceptional Learners
Self-Regulation
39. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Enrichment Programs
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Luck
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
40. 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).
Reading
Triarchic Theory
Deficiency Needs
Absolute Grading Standards
41. 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 external to the student.
Achievement Motivation
Character
Difficulty of the Task
Centration
42. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Internalization
Construct Validity
Token Economy
Inattention
43. 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
Forgetting
Social Inferences
Contingency Contracting
44. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Mnemonic Devices
Automaticity
Class Inclusion
45. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Learning Disability
Inclusion
Dyslexia
Mental Retardation
46. 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).
Performance Grading Scales
Growth Needs
Rehearsal
Intermittent Retardation
47. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Decay
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Withitness
Two-Store Model
48. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Concept-Driven Models
Transitional Bilingual Programs
49. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Pragmatics
Instruction
Centration
50. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Postconventional Morality
Preconventional Morality
Schemata
Public Law 94-142