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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Conservation
Planned Ignoring
Educational Goals
T-Scores
2. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Syntax
Instruction
Conditioning
3. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Mental Retardation
Shaping
Conservation
Receptive Language Disorders
4. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Construct Validity
Transitivity
Episodic Memory
Pivotal Response Therapy
5. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Retrieval
Mnemonic Devices
Ability
Type-S Conditioning
6. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Generative learning
Impulsivity
Percentile Scores
7. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Transitivity
Gender Bias
Hyperactivity
Gender Identity
8. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Conservation
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Method of Loci
Hyperactivity
9. 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.
Primary Reinforcer
Formative Evaluation
T-Scores
Accelerated Programs
10. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Operant Behavior
Language System
Simple Moral Education Programs
Two-sigma problem
11. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int
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12. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Generative learning
Personal Fable
Exhibition
Behavioral Theory
13. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Educational Goals
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Dyslexia
Psychometrics
14. 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
Reading
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Cognitive Objectives
15. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Inner Speech
Time-Out
Portfolio
Elaborative Encoding
16. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Inattention
Conditioning
attrition
17. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Reliability
Dyslexia
Data-Driven Models
18. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Social Cognition
Anxiety Disorders
Cooing
General (or High-Road) Transfer
19. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Z-Scores
Generalized Reinforcer
Expository Advance Organizers
Rehearsal
20. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Phonology
Planned Ignoring
Development
Hearing Impairment
21. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Elaborative Encoding
Response Set
Anxiety Disorders
Aptitude Tests
22. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Normal Distribution
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Two-sigma problem
Engaged Time
23. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Practical Intelligence
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Identity
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
24. 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.
Long-Term Memory
Criterion-Related Validity
Cultural Deficit Theories
Working-Backward Strategy
25. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Generative learning
Proactive Interference
Method of Loci
26. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Moratorium
Internal Locus of Control
Affective Objectives
Ability
27. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
IDEAL Strategy
attrition
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
28. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Practical Intelligence
Phonemes
Mental Retardation
29. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Confidence Interval
Decay
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Primary Reinforcer
30. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Pervasive Retardation
Expressive Disorders
Social Learning and Expectancy
Cognitive Objectives
31. 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.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Generalized Reinforcer
Language Experience Strategy
Content Validity
32. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Cooperative Learning
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Inclusion
Corporal Punishment
33. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Social Inferences
Cultural Differences Theories
Maturation
Premack Principle
34. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Seriation
Two-Store Model
General Exploratory Activities
Social Learning and Expectancy
35. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Models (Instruction)
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
General Objectives
36. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Foreclosure
Babbling
Hearing Impairment
Transformation
37. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Learned Helplessness
Proactive Interference
Transformation
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
38. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Development
Demonstrations
Method of Loci
Gender Role
39. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Encoding
Confidence Interval
Cultural Deficit Theories
Pragmatics
40. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Automaticity
Real Self-Efficacy
Object-Relations Theory
Two-sigma problem
41. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Predictive Validity
Achievement Motivation
Personal Fable
Cultural Deficit Theories
42. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Community-Based Education Programs
Type-S Conditioning
Elaborative Encoding
43. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Reading
Babbling
Impulsivity
Conservation
44. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Syntax
Inclusion
Algorithm
Postconventional Morality
45. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Self-Determination Theory
Impulsivity
Personal Fable
Psychometrics
46. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Problem Solving
Communication
Hearing Impairment
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
47. 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.
Time-Out
General Exploratory Activities
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Invincibility Fallacy
48. Those one observes.
Means-Ends Analysis
Reading
Models (Observational Learning)
Achievement Test Battery
49. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Task Analysis
Achievement Motivation
Elaboration
Response Set
50. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Educational Psychology
Psychometrics
Aptitude Tests
Scheduled Time