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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Corporal Punishment
Conservation
Z-Scores
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
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.
Organization
Holophrastic Speech
Seriation
Premack Principle
3. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Response-Cost System
Criterion-Related Validity
4. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Secondary Reinforcer
Organization
Holophrastic Speech
5. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Social Cognition
Communication
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
6. How capable one actually is.
Real Self-Efficacy
Vicarious Learning
Long-Term Memory
Teaching Efficacy
7. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Derived Score
Hearing Impairment
Corporal Punishment
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
8. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Synthetic Intelligence
Gender Bias
Transitivity
Critical pedagogy
9. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Extrinsic Motivation
Jigsaw II
Fluency Disorders
Type-S Conditioning
10. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Feedback Loop
Z-Scores
Instructional Objectives
Contingency Contracting
11. 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.
Instruction
Critical pedagogy
Achievement Tests
Procedural Memory
12. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Transitivity
Metacognition
Brainstorming
Cultural Differences Theories
13. 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.
Episodic Memory
Two-sigma problem
Practical Intelligence
Retroactive Interference
14. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Iconic Storage Register
Specific Learning Outcomes
Extensive Retardation
Planned Ignoring
15. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Normal Distribution
Expected Outcomes
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Anxiety Disorders
16. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Data-Driven Models
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Withitness
Deficiency Needs
17. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
General Exploratory Activities
Group Training Experiences
Constructivism
Holophrastic Speech
18. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Public Law 94-142
Moratorium
T-Scores
Test Bias
19. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
Rehearsal
Reciprocal Teaching
Real Self-Efficacy
Direct instruction
20. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Mnemonic Devices
Reliability
Gender Identity
Conventional Morality
21. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Preconventional Morality
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Carroll's Model of School Learning
22. 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.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Psychometrics
Accelerated Programs
Preconventional Morality
23. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Phonemes
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Identity
Enrichment Programs
24. 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)
Encoding
Chunking
Summative Evaluation
25. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Cultural Differences Theories
Concurrent Validity
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Comparative Advance Organizers
26. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Academic Learning Time
Data-Driven Models
Inattention
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
27. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Postconventional Morality
Reciprocal Teaching
Response-Cost System
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
28. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Cooperative Learning
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Type-R Conditioning
29. 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.
Primary Reinforcer
attrition
Encoding
Jigsaw II
30. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Metacognition
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Advance Organizer
Descriptive Grading Scales
31. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Conventional Morality
Performance Grading Scales
Advance Organizer
Episodic Memory
32. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Proactive Interference
Mastery Learning
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Community-Based Education Programs
33. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
IDEAL Strategy
Conditioning
Absolute Grading Standards
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
34. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Educational Goals
35. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Stability
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Reading
36. 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.
Moderate Retardation
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Conditioning
Impulsivity
37. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Chunking
General Exploratory Activities
Scheduled Time
Psychomotor Objectives
38. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Type-S Conditioning
Classification
Anxiety Disorders
Performance Grading Scales
39. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Method of Loci
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Data-Driven Models
Identity Achievement
40. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Instructional Objectives
Mental Retardation
Intermittent Retardation
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
41. 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.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Problem Solving
42. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo
Active teaching
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Respondent Behavior
Face Validity
43. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Phonics Approach
Invincibility Fallacy
Concept-Driven Models
Synthetic Intelligence
44. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Pedagogy
Mental Retardation
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
45. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Questioning Techniques
Contingency Contracting
46. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Time-Out
Keyword
Test-Retest Reliability
Maturation
47. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Enrichment Programs
Z-Scores
Vicarious Learning
Formative Evaluation
48. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Seriation
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Time-Out
Token Economy
49. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Confidence Interval
Communication
Morphemes
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
50. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Echoic Storage Register
Conventional Morality
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Chunking