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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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 level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Procedural Memory
Simple Moral Education Programs
Foreclosure
Two-Store Model
2. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
External Locus of Control
Educational Goals
Tracking
Transformation
3. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Self-Determination Theory
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Automaticity
Achievement Motivation
4. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Practical Intelligence
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Descriptive Statistics
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
5. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Norm-Referenced Testing
Personal Fable
Instructional Theory
6. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Test Bias
Clustering
Proactive Interference
Reinforcer
7. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Expository Advance Organizers
Learning Disability
8. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Vicarious Learning
Active teaching
Class Inclusion
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
9. 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.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Percentile Scores
Pervasive Retardation
Accelerated Programs
10. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Motivation
Primary Reinforcer
Behavior Disorders
Elaboration
11. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Retrieval
Scheduled Time
Impulsivity
Practical Intelligence
12. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Expressive Disorders
attrition
Pervasive Retardation
Reliability
13. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Data-Driven Models
Clustering
Hearing Impairment
Expository Advance Organizers
14. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Reinforcer
Learning Disabilities
Z-Scores
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
15. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.
Group Consequences
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Luck
Learning Disabilities
16. 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).
Cooperative Learning
Growth Needs
Group Training Experiences
Achievement Test Battery
17. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Classification
Difficulty of the Task
Dyslexia
Inclusion
18. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Type-R Conditioning
Reciprocal Teaching
Chunking
Syntax
19. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
External Locus of Control
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Withitness
20. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Learning Disability
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Pragmatics
Ability
21. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Decay
Schemata
Pedagogy
Identity Diffusion
22. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Planned Ignoring
Human Needs Theory
IDEAL Strategy
23. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Validity
Instructional Objectives
Performance Grading Scales
Psychometrics
24. 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.
Morphemes
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Communication
Mastery Learning
25. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Accelerated Programs
Metacognition
Extrinsic Motivation
26. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Hyperactivity
Secondary Reinforcer
Static Assessment Approach
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
27. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Attention
Expected Outcomes
Expository Advance Organizers
Socioeconomic Status
28. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Inner Speech
Inclusion
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Cognitive Objectives
29. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Acronym
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Pedagogy
Means-Ends Analysis
30. 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).
Anxiety Disorders
Deficiency Needs
Concept-Driven Models
Achievement Tests
31. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Accelerated Programs
Confidence Interval
Face Validity
Phonics Approach
32. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Extensive Retardation
Two-Store Model
Episodic Memory
33. Relating current information with previous learning.
Behavior Disorders
Static Assessment Approach
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Analogies
34. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Test Bias
Steiner-Waldorf Education
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Social Inferences
35. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Mastery Learning
Criterion-Related Validity
Analytical Intelligence
Pragmatics
36. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Episodic Memory
Respondent Behavior
Moderate Retardation
Reciprocal Teaching
37. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Moratorium
Normal Distribution
Gifted and Talented Children
38. 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
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Language System
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Preconventional Morality
39. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Cultural Differences Theories
Extrinsic Motivation
Analogies
Allocated Time
40. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Mental Retardation
Transfer of Information
Normal Distribution
Reinforcer
41. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Achievement Test Battery
Preconventional Morality
Ability
Mild Retardation
42. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Demonstrations
Visual Impairment
Reading
43. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Reciprocal Determinism
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Metacognition
Problem Solving
44. The sensory register for visual information.
Iconic Storage Register
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Formative Evaluation
Social Inferences
45. 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 external to the student.
Elaborative Encoding
Luck
Achievement Test Battery
Instructional Objectives
46. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Algorithm
Socioeconomic Status
Method of Loci
Voice Disorders
47. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Object-Relations Theory
Primary Reinforcer
Algorithm
Procedural Memory
48. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Intermittent Retardation
Real Self-Efficacy
Law of Effect
Cooperative Learning
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.
Babbling
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Semantic Memory
Teaching Efficacy
50. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Constructivism
Postconventional Morality
Brainstorming
Personal Fable