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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. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Performance Grading Scales
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Direct Modeling
Descriptive Statistics
2. 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.
Enrichment Programs
Invincibility Fallacy
Seriation
Educational Goals
3. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.
Problem Solving
Invincibility Fallacy
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Reciprocal Determinism
4. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Corporal Punishment
Group Consequences
Retrieval
Problem Solving
5. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Pivotal Response Therapy
Language System
Intermittent Retardation
6. 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
Achievement Motivation
Decay
Impulsivity
7. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Expected Outcomes
Psychomotor Objectives
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Pragmatics
8. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Heuristics
Static Assessment Approach
9. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Real Self-Efficacy
Simple Moral Education Programs
Moratorium
Pragmatics
10. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Language System
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Elaboration
Generalized Reinforcer
11. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Attribution Theory
Content Validity
Identity Diffusion
Exhibition
12. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Critical pedagogy
Inattention
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Z-Scores
13. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Group Consequences
Epilepsy
Rehearsal
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
14. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Summative Evaluation
Performance Grading Scales
Questioning Techniques
Epilepsy
15. 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).
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Psychometrics
Preconventional Morality
Moratorium
16. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Conservation
Contingency Contracting
Development
17. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Effort
Identity Achievement
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Elaborative Encoding
18. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Planned Ignoring
Semantic Memory
Models (Instruction)
Mild Retardation
19. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.
Feedback Loop
Long-Term Memory
Organization
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
20. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Portfolio
Transitivity
Learning Disability
Community-Based Education Programs
21. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.
Constructivism
Questioning Techniques
Performance Grading Scales
Standard Error of Estimate
22. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Descriptive Grading Scales
Semantic Memory
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
23. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Learning Disability
Perception
Gender Bias
Encoding
24. 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.
Procedural Memory
Preconventional Morality
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Norm-Referenced Testing
25. 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.
Taxonomy
Reversibility
Token Economy
Concept-Driven Models
26. How relevant a test is at face value.
Dyslexia
Face Validity
Test-Retest Reliability
Guided Discovery
27. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Two-Store Model
Reading
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Rehearsal
28. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Task Analysis
Community-Based Education Programs
Character Education Programs
Morphemes
29. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Mental Retardation
Content Validity
Articulation Difficulties
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
30. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Schemata
Conditioning
Hearing Impairment
31. 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.
General Exploratory Activities
Formative Evaluation
Intermittent Retardation
Self-Regulation
32. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Means-Ends Analysis
Descriptive Statistics
Derived Score
Synthetic Intelligence
33. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Withitness
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Response Set
Class Inclusion
34. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Extrinsic Motivation
Subschemata
Social Cognition
Working or Short-Term Memory
35. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Foreclosure
Withitness
Feedback Loop
Extrinsic Motivation
36. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Responsibility
Reading
Critical pedagogy
37. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Confidence Interval
Premack Principle
Babbling
Encoding
38. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Synthesized Modeling
Taxonomy
Mastery Learning
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
39. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Content Validity
Phonemes
Brainstorming
Severe and Profound Retardation
40. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Exhibition
Limited Retardation
Secondary Reinforcer
Feedback Loop
41. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Predictive Validity
T-Scores
Working-Backward Strategy
Portfolio
42. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Assertive Discipline
Keyword
Classification
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
43. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Group Consequences
Simple Moral Education Programs
Summative Evaluation
Intermittent Retardation
44. 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
Face Validity
Symbolic Modeling
Automaticity
45. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Group Consequences
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Effort
Hyperactivity
46. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Cooing
Exceptional Learners
Pivotal Response Therapy
Forgetting
47. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Effort
Decay
Articulation Difficulties
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
48. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Derived Score
Rehearsal
Receptive Language Disorders
Babbling
49. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Generative learning
Primary Reinforcer
At-Risk Students
Classification
50. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Intermittent Retardation
Questioning Techniques
Chunking
Moderate Retardation