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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 amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Academic Learning Time
Scheduled Time
Transformation
Learning Disabilities
2. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Self-Determination Theory
Demonstrations
Extensive Retardation
IDEAL Strategy
3. 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.
Mnemonic Devices
Educational Goals
Test Bias
Conservation
4. Internalized self-talk.
Percentile Scores
Conventional Morality
General Exploratory Activities
Inner Speech
5. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Semantic Memory
Identity Diffusion
Whole Language Approach
Moratorium
6. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Z-Scores
Intrinsic Motivation
Response Set
Models (Observational Learning)
7. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Planned Ignoring
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Decay
Reinforcer
8. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
Jigsaw II
Transfer of Information
Socioeconomic Status
Public Law 94-142
9. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Development
Working-Backward Strategy
Descriptive Grading Scales
Epilepsy
10. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Hearing Impairment
Hyperactivity
Standard Error of Estimate
Mild Retardation
11. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Public Law 94-142
Retrieval
Taxonomy
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
12. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Learning Disability
Means-Ends Analysis
Questioning Techniques
Metacognition
13. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Postconventional Morality
Episodic Memory
Syntax
Questioning Techniques
14. How relevant a test is at face value.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Face Validity
Babbling
Taxonomy
15. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Group Consequences
Deficiency Needs
General Objectives
16. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Character
Babbling
Guided Discovery
Mild Retardation
17. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Response Set
Morphemes
Echoic Storage Register
Responsibility
18. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Working-Backward Strategy
Descriptive Statistics
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
19. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Personal Fable
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Portfolio
Pivotal Response Therapy
20. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Moratorium
Corporal Punishment
Assertive Discipline
21. 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.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Tracking
Internalization
Critical pedagogy
22. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Expected Outcomes
Whole Language Approach
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Subschemata
23. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Extrinsic Motivation
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Expected Outcomes
Behavioral Theory
24. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Social Cognition
Articulation Difficulties
Acronym
Generative learning
25. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Pedagogy
Pervasive Retardation
Elaborative Encoding
Type-S Conditioning
26. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Maturation
Token Economy
Data-Driven Models
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
27. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Generative learning
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Postconventional Morality
Attention
28. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Pragmatics
Foreclosure
Holophrastic Speech
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
29. How capable one actually is.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Public Law 94-142
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Real Self-Efficacy
30. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Babbling
Exceptional Learners
Concept-Driven Models
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
31. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Centration
Iconic Storage Register
Planned Ignoring
Direct instruction
32. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Working or Short-Term Memory
33. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Reading
At-Risk Students
Assertive Discipline
Dyslexia
34. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Dyslexia
Learning Disability
Code Emphasis Strategy
Simple Moral Education Programs
35. Those one observes.
Mastery Learning
Group Training Experiences
Type-R Conditioning
Models (Observational Learning)
36. 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.
Tracking
Accelerated Programs
Social Inferences
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
37. 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.
Reading
Morphemes
Performance Grading Scales
Synthetic Intelligence
38. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Task Analysis
Intrinsic Motivation
Triarchic Theory
Performance-Based Test Strategies
39. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Simple Moral Education Programs
Semantics
Confidence Interval
40. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Token Economy
Whole Language Approach
Limited Retardation
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
41. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Summative Evaluation
Comparative Advance Organizers
Problem Solving
Rehearsal
42. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Reversibility
Formative Evaluation
Reliability
43. 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.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Ability
Schemata
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
44. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Construct Validity
Absolute Grading Standards
Summative Evaluation
45. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Organization
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Personal Fable
46. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Synthetic Intelligence
Procedural Memory
Models (Observational Learning)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
47. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Mental Retardation
Gender Role
Syntax
48. The sensory register for auditory information.
Group Consequences
Criterion-Related Validity
Echoic Storage Register
Achievement Motivation
49. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Reciprocal Teaching
Retrieval
Clustering
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
50. 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.
Practical Intelligence
Phonics Approach
Foreclosure
Phonemes