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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. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Forgetting
Demonstrations
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
2. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Predictive Validity
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
External Locus of Control
Test Bias
3. 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
Mnemonic Devices
Pervasive Retardation
Generative learning
4. The sensory register for auditory information.
Exceptional Learners
Synthesized Modeling
Subschemata
Echoic Storage Register
5. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Phonemes
Standard Error of Estimate
Portfolio
Anxiety Disorders
6. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Premack Principle
Transitivity
Concept-Driven Models
Operant Behavior
7. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Contingency Contracting
Models (Instruction)
Encoding
General Objectives
8. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Phonology
Respondent Behavior
Internal Locus of Control
Mental Retardation
9. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Centration
Decay
Semantics
Cooperative Learning
10. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Procedural Memory
Active teaching
Primary Reinforcer
Steiner-Waldorf Education
11. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Psychometrics
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
12. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Expected Outcomes
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Reversibility
Schemata
13. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Maturation
Withitness
Schemata
Aptitude Tests
14. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Task Analysis
Elaborative Encoding
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Long-Term Memory
15. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Invincibility Fallacy
Semantic Memory
Personal Fable
Questioning Techniques
16. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
Achievement Tests
IDEAL Strategy
Behavior Disorders
Vicarious Learning
17. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Clustering
18. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Extrinsic Motivation
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Achievement Test Battery
Behavioral Theory
19. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Method of Loci
Proactive Interference
Visual Impairment
20. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Cooperative Learning
Motivation
Achievement Motivation
Forgetting
21. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Difficulty of the Task
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Data-Driven Models
Critical pedagogy
22. 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.
Gender Role
Performance Grading Scales
Simple Moral Education Programs
Cultural Differences Theories
23. 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).
Intrinsic Motivation
Stability
Retrieval
Preconventional Morality
24. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
Means-Ends Analysis
Affective Objectives
Intrinsic Motivation
Public Law 94-142
25. The study of how students learn and develop.
Internal Locus of Control
Community-Based Education Programs
Educational Psychology
Attribution Theory
26. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Keyword
Means-Ends Analysis
Clustering
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
27. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Norm Group
Moderate Retardation
Internalization
Subschemata
28. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Task Analysis
Reversibility
Secondary Reinforcer
29. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Heuristics
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Attention
Reinforcer
30. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Reciprocal Determinism
Transformation
Confidence Interval
Jigsaw II
31. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
attrition
Semantics
Identity Achievement
32. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Educational Goals
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Normal Distribution
33. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Foreclosure
Synthesized Modeling
Academic Learning Time
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
34. 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.
Phonics Approach
Achievement Motivation
Ability
Practical Intelligence
35. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Responsibility
Two-sigma problem
Long-Term Memory
Stability
36. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Type-S Conditioning
Internalization
Psychomotor Objectives
Achievement Test Battery
37. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Social Cognition
Law of Effect
Receptive Language Disorders
Character
38. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Respondent Behavior
Inattention
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
39. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Schemata
Conditioning
Exhibition
Postconventional Morality
40. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Reciprocal Teaching
Shaping
Dual Coding Hypothesis
41. 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.
Maturation
Secondary Reinforcer
Law of Effect
General Objectives
42. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Social Inferences
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Hyperactivity
Behavioral Theory
43. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Impulsivity
Educational Goals
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
44. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Behavior Disorders
Behavioral Theory
Pervasive Retardation
45. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Face Validity
Self-Determination Theory
Reinforcer
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
46. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Behavioral Theory
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Articulation Difficulties
47. Those one observes.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Confidence Interval
Models (Observational Learning)
Mastery Learning
48. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Method of Loci
Tracking
Mental Retardation
Visual Impairment
49. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Articulation Difficulties
Teaching Efficacy
Elaboration
50. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Educational Psychology
Character
Reversibility
Means-Ends Analysis