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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Test-Retest Reliability
Seriation
Educational Goals
Dynamic Assessment Approach
2. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Confidence Interval
Language Experience Strategy
Analytical Intelligence
3. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Syntax
Exceptional Learners
4. 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.
Self-Determination Theory
Test-Retest Reliability
Inattention
Token Economy
5. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Responsibility
Mastery Grading Scales
Assertive Discipline
Gifted and Talented Children
6. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Retrieval
Self-Efficacy
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Norm-Referenced Testing
7. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Class Inclusion
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Cooing
8. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.
Mastery Grading Scales
Decay
Foreclosure
Language Experience Strategy
9. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Summative Evaluation
Pragmatics
Transitivity
Validity
10. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Problem Solving
Mental Retardation
Personal Fable
Human Needs Theory
11. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Aptitude Tests
Scheduled Time
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Withitness
12. 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.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Real Self-Efficacy
Pivotal Response Therapy
Token Economy
13. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Planned Ignoring
Learning Disabilities
Concept-Driven Models
Normal Distribution
14. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Schemata
Severe and Profound Retardation
Observational Learning
Exhibition
15. 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
Symbolic Modeling
Code Emphasis Strategy
Percentile Scores
16. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Rehearsal
General Exploratory Activities
Direct instruction
Internalization
17. 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.
Feedback Loop
Test-Retest Reliability
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Language Experience Strategy
18. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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19. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Functional Fixedness
Secondary Reinforcer
Episodic Memory
Language System
20. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Attention
Functional Fixedness
Identity Diffusion
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
21. How relevant a test is at face value.
Episodic Memory
Face Validity
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Analytical Intelligence
22. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Confidence Interval
Morphemes
23. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Decay
Mnemonic Devices
Descriptive Statistics
Performance Grading Scales
24. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
General Exploratory Activities
Social Learning and Expectancy
Preconventional Morality
Pedagogy
25. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Mastery Grading Scales
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Hyperactivity
26. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Motivation
Class Inclusion
Predictive Validity
Postconventional Morality
27. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Taxonomy
Identity Diffusion
Means-Ends Analysis
Achievement Test Battery
28. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Teaching Efficacy
Sensory Register
Descriptive Statistics
Demonstrations
29. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Internal Locus of Control
Triarchic Theory
Summative Evaluation
Instructional Objectives
30. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Synthesized Modeling
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Self-Regulation
Cognitive Objectives
31. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Formative Evaluation
Simple Moral Education Programs
Difficulty of the Task
Retroactive Interference
32. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Response Set
Static Assessment Approach
Personal Fable
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
33. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Chunking
Exceptional Learners
Expressive Disorders
Active teaching
34. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Moderate Retardation
Normal Distribution
Episodic Memory
Automaticity
35. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Respondent Behavior
Planned Ignoring
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Semantics
36. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Episodic Memory
Code Emphasis Strategy
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Pedagogy
37. The sensory register for visual information.
Internal Locus of Control
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Iconic Storage Register
Planned Ignoring
38. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Psychomotor Objectives
Norm Group
Group Consequences
39. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Semantic Memory
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Growth Needs
Type-S Conditioning
40. 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.
Aptitude Tests
Analytical Intelligence
Human Needs Theory
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
41. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil
Attribution Theory
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Voice Disorders
Gender Role
42. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Learning Disabilities
Moratorium
Group Training Experiences
Pragmatics
43. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Z-Scores
Group Consequences
Retroactive Interference
Derived Score
44. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Invincibility Fallacy
Moratorium
Fluency Disorders
Affective Objectives
45. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Language Experience Strategy
Models (Instruction)
Communication
Internalization
46. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Educational Psychology
Expository Teaching
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
47. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Achievement Test Battery
Mental Retardation
T-Scores
Inattention
48. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Instructional Objectives
Social Cognition
Cultural Deficit Theories
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
49. 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.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Scheduled Time
Teaching Efficacy
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
50. 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.
Luck
Code Emphasis Strategy
Intermittent Retardation
Structure of Intellect (SOI)