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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Proactive Interference
Psychomotor Objectives
Operant Behavior
Personal Fable
2. The study of the meaning behind words.
Allocated Time
Norm Group
Community-Based Education Programs
Semantics
3. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Intermittent Retardation
Functional Fixedness
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Comparative Advance Organizers
4. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Academic Learning Time
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Gifted and Talented Children
Two-sigma problem
5. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Time-Out
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Inclusion
T-Scores
6. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.
Achievement Motivation
Gifted and Talented Children
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Gender Role
7. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Test-Retest Reliability
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Learning Disability
Operant Behavior
8. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Heuristics
Social Learning and Expectancy
External Locus of Control
9. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Extrinsic Motivation
Psychomotor Objectives
Normal Distribution
Hyperactivity
10. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Learned Helplessness
Advance Organizer
Clustering
11. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Mental Retardation
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Expository Advance Organizers
Cooing
12. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Engaged Time
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Social Learning and Expectancy
Transformation
13. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Models (Instruction)
Algorithm
Schemata
Cooperative Learning
14. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Intermittent Retardation
Data-Driven Models
Derived Score
15. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a
Generative learning
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Perception
16. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Language Experience Strategy
Face Validity
Content Validity
Test Bias
17. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Guided Discovery
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Dyslexia
Invincibility Fallacy
18. 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.
Descriptive Statistics
Pedagogy
Learned Helplessness
Critical pedagogy
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.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Stability
Long-Term Memory
Scheduled Time
20. 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.
Token Economy
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Contingency Contracting
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
21. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Concept-Driven Models
Pervasive Retardation
Organization
Inner Speech
22. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Achievement Motivation
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Dual Coding Hypothesis
23. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Confidence Interval
Transfer of Information
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Sensory Register
24. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Withitness
Organization
IDEAL Strategy
Semantics
25. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Character
Postconventional Morality
Group Consequences
26. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Normal Distribution
Norm Group
Elaborative Encoding
27. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Mastery Learning
Simple Moral Education Programs
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
28. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Predictive Validity
Academic Learning Time
Preconventional Morality
Static Assessment Approach
29. 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.
Conventional Morality
Keyword
Algorithm
Retrieval
30. The use of physical punishment.
Corporal Punishment
Predictive Validity
External Locus of Control
Automaticity
31. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Working-Backward Strategy
Absolute Grading Standards
Secondary Reinforcer
Elaborative Encoding
32. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Premack Principle
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Instruction
Socioeconomic Status
33. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Cognitive Objectives
Problem Solving
Brainstorming
Primary Reinforcer
34. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Engaged Time
Tracking
Reliability
35. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Decay
Gender Bias
Echoic Storage Register
Learning Disabilities
36. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Construct Validity
Shaping
Educational Psychology
Derived Score
37. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Fluency Disorders
Human Needs Theory
Seriation
Reinforcer
38. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Absolute Grading Standards
Acronym
Behavioral Theory
Response Set
39. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Whole Language Approach
Mnemonic Devices
Means-Ends Analysis
40. 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.
Organization
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Specific Learning Outcomes
Observational Learning
41. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Syntax
Pedagogy
Mastery Learning
Generalized Reinforcer
42. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Long-Term Memory
Reciprocal Determinism
Active teaching
Hearing Impairment
43. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Heuristics
Subschemata
44. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
General Exploratory Activities
Guided Discovery
Problem Solving
Epilepsy
45. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Aptitude Tests
Task Analysis
Brainstorming
Preconventional Morality
46. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Response-Cost System
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Internalization
Task Analysis
47. 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.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Confidence Interval
Conservation
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
48. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Expository Advance Organizers
Concurrent Validity
Guided Discovery
Learning Disability
49. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Confidence Interval
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Identity Achievement
Symbolic Modeling
50. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
General Objectives
Transformation
Semantic Memory
Withitness
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