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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Achievement Test Battery
Voice Disorders
Practical Intelligence
Impulsivity
2. Relating current information with previous learning.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Reliability
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Analogies
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.
Response-Cost System
Task Analysis
Moderate Retardation
Cultural Differences Theories
4. How relevant a test is at face value.
Face Validity
IDEAL Strategy
Operant Behavior
Means-Ends Analysis
5. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Feedback Loop
Transitivity
Deficiency Needs
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
6. 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.
Models (Observational Learning)
Confidence Interval
Summative Evaluation
Phonology
7. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Long-Term Memory
Schemata
Effort
Character Education Programs
8. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Confidence Interval
Reliability
Affective Objectives
Phonology
9. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Cultural Differences Theories
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Pivotal Response Therapy
Mild Retardation
10. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Allocated Time
External Locus of Control
Reliability
Performance-Based Test Strategies
11. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Encoding
Cooing
Direct instruction
Decay
12. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Proactive Interference
Retroactive Interference
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Clustering
13. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Performance Grading Scales
Instructional Objectives
Inattention
Exhibition
14. The total length of the class.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Exceptional Learners
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Scheduled Time
15. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Allocated Time
Attention
Articulation Difficulties
Mental Retardation
16. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Operant Behavior
Luck
Construct Validity
Algorithm
17. How capable one actually is.
Real Self-Efficacy
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
General Exploratory Activities
Reciprocal Determinism
18. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
Exceptional Learners
Direct instruction
T-Scores
Reading
19. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Concept-Driven Models
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Episodic Memory
20. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Type-R Conditioning
Vicarious Learning
Type-S Conditioning
Voice Disorders
21. 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
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
IDEAL Strategy
Generative learning
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
22. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Fluency Disorders
Effort
Educational Psychology
Two-Store Model
23. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Language Experience Strategy
Concept-Driven Models
Cultural Differences Theories
Planned Ignoring
24. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Extrinsic Motivation
Invincibility Fallacy
Cultural Differences Theories
Law of Effect
25. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Self-Determination Theory
Behavior Disorders
Type-S Conditioning
Feedback Loop
26. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Forgetting
Phonemes
Pervasive Retardation
Type-R Conditioning
27. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Self-Determination Theory
Psychomotor Objectives
Method of Loci
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
28. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Luck
Self-Regulation
Object-Relations Theory
Visual Impairment
29. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Development
Fluency Disorders
Problem Solving
Centration
30. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Identity Achievement
Real Self-Efficacy
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Advance Organizer
31. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Behavioral Theory
Group Consequences
32. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Withitness
Confidence Interval
Psychometrics
Intrinsic Motivation
33. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Response-Cost System
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Dual Coding Hypothesis
34. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Expository Advance Organizers
Observational Learning
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Instructional Theory
35. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
At-Risk Students
Acronym
Primary Reinforcer
Limited Retardation
36. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Time-Out
Retroactive Interference
Pervasive Retardation
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
37. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Self-Regulation
Expository Advance Organizers
Models (Observational Learning)
Validity
38. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Static Assessment Approach
Reciprocal Teaching
Invincibility Fallacy
Demonstrations
39. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Behavior Disorders
Articulation Difficulties
Planned Ignoring
Rehearsal
40. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Behavioral Theory
Reversibility
Response Set
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
41. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Engaged Time
Ability
Triarchic Theory
Identity Achievement
42. The study of how students learn and develop.
Extrinsic Motivation
Postconventional Morality
Educational Psychology
Elaboration
43. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Personal Fable
Code Emphasis Strategy
Postconventional Morality
Seriation
44. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Questioning Techniques
Postconventional Morality
Mnemonic Devices
Self-Efficacy
45. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Generative learning
Models (Instruction)
Cultural Deficit Theories
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.
Assertive Discipline
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Learning Disabilities
Pragmatics
47. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Analytical Intelligence
Taxonomy
Aptitude Tests
Organization
48. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Response-Cost System
Construct Validity
Validity
Elaborative Encoding
49. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Secondary Reinforcer
Inclusion
Reciprocal Teaching
Generalized Reinforcer
50. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Educational Goals
Self-Efficacy
Dyslexia
Direct Modeling