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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. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Educational Goals
Severe and Profound Retardation
Two-sigma problem
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
2. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Retroactive Interference
Episodic Memory
Response Set
Receptive Language Disorders
3. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Motivation
Visual Impairment
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Response-Cost System
4. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Deficiency Needs
Preconventional Morality
Clustering
5. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Language Experience Strategy
Questioning Techniques
Instructional Theory
Socioeconomic Status
6. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Echoic Storage Register
Generative learning
Static Assessment Approach
7. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Response-Cost System
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Gender Identity
Law of Effect
8. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Practical Intelligence
Conditioning
Test-Retest Reliability
Task Analysis
9. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Maturation
Brainstorming
Analytical Intelligence
10. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Exceptional Learners
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Semantic Memory
Psychomotor Objectives
11. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Metacognition
Visual Impairment
Chunking
Primary Reinforcer
12. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Behavioral Theory
Analogies
Premack Principle
Human Needs Theory
13. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Inattention
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Expected Outcomes
Receptive Language Disorders
14. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Motivation
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Babbling
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
15. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Chunking
Invincibility Fallacy
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Concurrent Validity
16. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Human Needs Theory
Vicarious Learning
Constructivism
Whole Language Approach
17. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Norm Group
Cultural Deficit Theories
Schemata
Conditioning
18. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Mild Retardation
Face Validity
Anxiety Disorders
19. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Expected Outcomes
Socioeconomic Status
Comparative Advance Organizers
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
20. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Articulation Difficulties
Syntax
Community-Based Education Programs
Internalization
21. 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.
Inclusion
Heuristics
Achievement Motivation
Long-Term Memory
22. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Aptitude Tests
Questioning Techniques
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Means-Ends Analysis
23. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Internalization
Engaged Time
Language System
24. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Luck
Primary Reinforcer
Criterion-Related Validity
25. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Whole Language Approach
Cooperative Learning
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
26. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Stability
Active teaching
Learning Disabilities
27. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Retroactive Interference
Sensory Register
Decay
Echoic Storage Register
28. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Affective Objectives
Reinforcer
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
29. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Attention
Academic Learning Time
Holophrastic Speech
30. 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.
Models (Instruction)
Synthetic Intelligence
Test-Retest Reliability
Internalization
31. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Limited Retardation
Socioeconomic Status
Allocated Time
Holophrastic Speech
32. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.
Pedagogy
Learning Disability
Object-Relations Theory
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
33. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Mastery Grading Scales
Withitness
Criterion-Related Validity
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
34. 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.
Construct Validity
Identity Diffusion
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Generalized Reinforcer
35. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Generative learning
Reliability
Self-Regulation
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
36. 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.
Time-Out
Socioeconomic Status
Maturation
Percentile Scores
37. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Cooing
Behavior Disorders
Face Validity
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
38. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Norm Group
Pragmatics
Development
Mild Retardation
39. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Descriptive Grading Scales
Difficulty of the Task
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
40. The sensory register for auditory information.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Echoic Storage Register
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Character
41. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Learned Helplessness
Constructivism
Deficiency Needs
Group Training Experiences
42. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Cooing
Conditioning
Automaticity
Mental Retardation
43. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Hearing Impairment
Classification
Percentile Scores
Human Needs Theory
44. 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.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Working or Short-Term Memory
Invincibility Fallacy
45. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Psychometrics
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Self-Determination Theory
Steiner-Waldorf Education
46. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Withitness
Generalized Reinforcer
Cognitive Objectives
Active teaching
47. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Social Inferences
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Mastery Grading Scales
48. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Secondary Reinforcer
Summative Evaluation
Descriptive Statistics
49. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
T-Scores
Working or Short-Term Memory
Iconic Storage Register
Type-R Conditioning
50. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Babbling
Gender Role
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Type-R Conditioning