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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Pragmatics
Two-Store Model
Fluency Disorders
Language System
2. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Standard Error of Estimate
Gender Role
attrition
Reversibility
3. The sensory register for auditory information.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Echoic Storage Register
Concurrent Validity
Working-Backward Strategy
4. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Synthesized Modeling
Morphemes
Mnemonic Devices
Clustering
5. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Language System
Academic Learning Time
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Achievement Tests
6. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Educational Goals
Internalization
Achievement Tests
Identity Diffusion
7. 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).
Hyperactivity
Encoding
Deficiency Needs
Behavior Disorders
8. 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 -
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Transfer of Information
Formative Evaluation
9. 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 stable and external to the student.
Difficulty of the Task
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
10. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Extensive Retardation
Identity Diffusion
Psychometrics
At-Risk Students
11. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Premack Principle
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
12. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Behavior Disorders
Limited Retardation
Symbolic Modeling
13. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Z-Scores
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Social Cognition
Stability
14. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Semantics
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Affective Objectives
Socioeconomic Status
15. The total length of the class.
Scheduled Time
Practical Intelligence
Synthesized Modeling
Centration
16. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Response-Cost System
Specific Learning Outcomes
Clustering
Engaged Time
17. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Retroactive Interference
Development
Transitivity
Subschemata
18. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Phonics Approach
IDEAL Strategy
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
19. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl
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20. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Expected Outcomes
Triarchic Theory
Retrieval
Preconventional Morality
21. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Direct instruction
Syntax
Language System
Episodic Memory
22. 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).
Formative Evaluation
Preconventional Morality
Concept-Driven Models
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
23. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Visual Impairment
Practical Intelligence
24. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Expository Advance Organizers
Response Set
Procedural Memory
Social Cognition
25. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Object-Relations Theory
Practical Intelligence
Descriptive Grading Scales
Schemata
26. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Transformation
Demonstrations
Responsibility
Foreclosure
27. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Internalization
Tracking
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Specific Learning Outcomes
28. How capable one actually is.
Affective Objectives
Guided Discovery
Real Self-Efficacy
Mastery Learning
29. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Deficiency Needs
Language Experience Strategy
Concept-Driven Models
30. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Communication
Instruction
Algorithm
Decay
31. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Subschemata
Jigsaw II
Dyslexia
Echoic Storage Register
32. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Character
Preconventional Morality
Questioning Techniques
Expected Outcomes
33. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Derived Score
Demonstrations
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Working or Short-Term Memory
34. 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.
General Exploratory Activities
Response-Cost System
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
35. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Portfolio
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
External Locus of Control
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
36. 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.
Conservation
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Brainstorming
Reversibility
37. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Internalization
Normal Distribution
Language System
Extensive Retardation
38. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Language Experience Strategy
Concept-Driven Models
Functional Fixedness
Teaching Efficacy
39. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Heuristics
Effort
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
40. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Direct instruction
Voice Disorders
Achievement Motivation
Test-Retest Reliability
41. 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.
Summative Evaluation
Accelerated Programs
Practical Intelligence
Critical pedagogy
42. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Test Bias
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Models (Instruction)
43. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
General Exploratory Activities
Difficulty of the Task
Epilepsy
Validity
44. 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.
Ability
Formative Evaluation
Inclusion
Character Education Programs
45. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Gender Bias
attrition
Maturation
Type-S Conditioning
46. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Gender Identity
Achievement Test Battery
Community-Based Education Programs
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
47. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Confidence Interval
Keyword
Receptive Language Disorders
Learning Disability
48. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Babbling
Elaborative Encoding
Community-Based Education Programs
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
49. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Standard Error of Estimate
Moratorium
50. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Means-Ends Analysis
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Conditioning
Iconic Storage Register