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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. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Social Inferences
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Mastery Grading Scales
Demonstrations
2. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Z-Scores
Extrinsic Motivation
Extensive Retardation
3. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Moratorium
Absolute Grading Standards
Engaged Time
4. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Exhibition
Task Analysis
Classification
Iconic Storage Register
5. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Mental Retardation
Descriptive Statistics
Secondary Reinforcer
Functional Fixedness
6. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Instructional Theory
Visual Impairment
Contingency Contracting
Hearing Impairment
7. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.
Character Education Programs
Time-Out
Performance Grading Scales
Analytical Intelligence
8. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Babbling
Heuristics
Elaborative Encoding
At-Risk Students
9. 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 -
Static Assessment Approach
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Postconventional Morality
Episodic Memory
10. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Accelerated Programs
Time-Out
Type-S Conditioning
11. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.
Mental Retardation
Tracking
Absolute Grading Standards
Keyword
12. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Enrichment Programs
Secondary Reinforcer
13. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Heuristics
Response Set
Jigsaw II
Transitivity
14. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Jigsaw II
Ability
Syntax
Instructional Objectives
15. 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
Internalization
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Self-Efficacy
Normal Distribution
16. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Working-Backward Strategy
Questioning Techniques
Engaged Time
Character Education Programs
17. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Problem Solving
Learning Disability
Individual and Small-Group Activities
18. How relevant a test is at face value.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Law of Effect
Semantics
Face Validity
19. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Semantics
Generalized Reinforcer
Reversibility
20. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Instructional Theory
Attention
Personal Fable
21. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Type-R Conditioning
Law of Effect
Enrichment Programs
Gender Bias
22. 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.
Triarchic Theory
Psychometrics
Luck
Functional Fixedness
23. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Mental Retardation
Heuristics
Direct instruction
Psychomotor Objectives
24. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Personal Fable
Difficulty of the Task
Attention
Cognitive Objectives
25. 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.
Identity
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Character
Foreclosure
26. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Vicarious Learning
Classification
Norm-Referenced Testing
27. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Dyslexia
Episodic Memory
Conventional Morality
28. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Foreclosure
Achievement Tests
Concurrent Validity
Law of Effect
29. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Time-Out
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Gifted and Talented Children
30. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Vicarious Learning
Socioeconomic Status
Stability
Foreclosure
31. 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.
T-Scores
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Instructional Objectives
Formative Evaluation
32. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Proactive Interference
Self-Determination Theory
Construct Validity
Receptive Language Disorders
33. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
Public Law 94-142
Pragmatics
Epilepsy
Dynamic Assessment Approach
34. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Analogies
Mild Retardation
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Educational Goals
35. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Learning Disabilities
Reciprocal Determinism
Gender Bias
Data-Driven Models
36. 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
Transfer of Information
Group Training Experiences
Direct instruction
Mild Retardation
37. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Social Cognition
Group Training Experiences
Summative Evaluation
38. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Pragmatics
Social Inferences
Transitivity
39. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Growth Needs
Stability
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Triarchic Theory
40. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Norm Group
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Subschemata
Procedural Memory
41. 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.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Secondary Reinforcer
Data-Driven Models
Analytical Intelligence
42. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Learning Disability
Self-Efficacy
Tracking
Synthesized Modeling
43. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Retrieval
Portfolio
Symbolic Modeling
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
44. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Instruction
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
45. 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.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Analogies
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
46. 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
Conventional Morality
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Active teaching
Metacognition
47. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Internal Locus of Control
Psychomotor Objectives
Communication
Automaticity
48. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Mastery Learning
Engaged Time
Tracking
Specific Learning Outcomes
49. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Synthesized Modeling
Real Self-Efficacy
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
50. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Triarchic Theory
Luck
Episodic Memory
Meaning Emphasis Strategy