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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 use of physical punishment.
Achievement Motivation
Corporal Punishment
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Reciprocal Determinism
2. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Primary Reinforcer
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Identity Diffusion
3. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Instruction
Advance Organizer
Summative Evaluation
Conventional Morality
4. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Elaborative Encoding
Perception
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Centration
5. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Phonology
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Achievement Tests
Fluency Disorders
6. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Constructivism
Group Consequences
Allocated Time
Keyword
7. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Intrinsic Motivation
Working or Short-Term Memory
Aptitude Tests
Learning Disability
8. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Cultural Differences Theories
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Intermittent Retardation
Gifted and Talented Children
9. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Extensive Retardation
Specific Learning Outcomes
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Language Experience Strategy
10. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Algorithm
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Object-Relations Theory
Type-S Conditioning
11. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Jigsaw II
Reading
Procedural Memory
Transitivity
12. The sensory register for auditory information.
Echoic Storage Register
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Forgetting
13. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Automaticity
Transformation
Pivotal Response Therapy
Communication
14. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Validity
Portfolio
Stability
Communication
15. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
Exceptional Learners
Standard Error of Estimate
IDEAL Strategy
Deficiency Needs
16. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Anxiety Disorders
Instructional Theory
Educational Goals
Learning Disabilities
17. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Questioning Techniques
Perception
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Secondary Reinforcer
18. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Gender Role
Operant Behavior
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
19. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Expected Outcomes
General Objectives
Face Validity
20. 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.
Affective Objectives
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Critical pedagogy
21. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Instruction
Moderate Retardation
Cooing
Specific Learning Outcomes
22. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Phonics Approach
Direct Modeling
Algorithm
Guided Discovery
23. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Transfer of Information
Morphemes
Transitivity
Code Emphasis Strategy
24. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Learning Disability
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Content Validity
Cooing
25. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Normal Distribution
Criterion-Related Validity
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Attribution Theory
26. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Problem Solving
Comparative Advance Organizers
Encoding
27. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Synthesized Modeling
Reciprocal Determinism
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Identity Achievement
28. Relating current information with previous learning.
Respondent Behavior
Centration
Synthetic Intelligence
Analogies
29. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Socioeconomic Status
Identity
Mnemonic Devices
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
30. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
attrition
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Affective Objectives
Social Cognition
31. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Luck
Inattention
Acronym
32. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
T-Scores
Concept-Driven Models
Receptive Language Disorders
Dual Coding Hypothesis
33. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Identity
Algorithm
Transitivity
Functional Fixedness
34. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Stability
Engaged Time
Rehearsal
Pragmatics
35. 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).
Proactive Interference
Conventional Morality
Descriptive Grading Scales
Seriation
36. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Metacognition
Concurrent Validity
Z-Scores
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
37. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Maturation
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Learning Disability
Morphemes
38. Those one observes.
Models (Observational Learning)
Instructional Objectives
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Steiner-Waldorf Education
39. 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.
Retrieval
Synthetic Intelligence
Schemata
Conventional Morality
40. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Phonemes
Attention
Gifted and Talented Children
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
41. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Social Inferences
Normal Distribution
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Receptive Language Disorders
42. Internalized self-talk.
Tracking
Inner Speech
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Norm Group
43. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Construct Validity
Face Validity
Pragmatics
Gender Bias
44. 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 -
Invincibility Fallacy
Gender Bias
Constructivism
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
45. 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.
Task Analysis
Mastery Learning
Time-Out
Heuristics
46. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.
Data-Driven Models
Learning Disabilities
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Holophrastic Speech
47. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.
Community-Based Education Programs
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Z-Scores
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
48. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Achievement Tests
Demonstrations
Inattention
Instructional Objectives
49. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Foreclosure
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Retroactive Interference
50. The sensory register for visual information.
Iconic Storage Register
Comparative Advance Organizers
Group Consequences
Syntax