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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Generative learning
Validity
Sensory Register
Cooing
2. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Educational Psychology
Shaping
Cognitive Objectives
Invincibility Fallacy
3. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Problem Solving
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Expressive Disorders
Forgetting
4. 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.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Enrichment Programs
Conditioning
Norm-Referenced Testing
5. 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.
Expository Advance Organizers
Socioeconomic Status
Generative learning
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
6. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Data-Driven Models
Extrinsic Motivation
Social Cognition
Comparative Advance Organizers
7. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Pervasive Retardation
Hyperactivity
Attribution Theory
8. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Models (Instruction)
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Descriptive Grading Scales
T-Scores
9. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Advance Organizer
Inner Speech
Motivation
Respondent Behavior
10. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Limited Retardation
Absolute Grading Standards
Centration
Contingency Contracting
11. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Percentile Scores
Learning Disabilities
Accelerated Programs
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
12. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Respondent Behavior
Proactive Interference
External Locus of Control
Enrichment Programs
13. 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.
Extensive Retardation
Self-Efficacy
Hearing Impairment
General Objectives
14. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Phonemes
At-Risk Students
Mastery Learning
Derived Score
15. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Exhibition
Synthetic Intelligence
Specific Learning Outcomes
Attention
16. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Mental Retardation
Intermittent Retardation
Taxonomy
17. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Psychomotor Objectives
Retroactive Interference
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Dyslexia
18. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Cooing
Stability
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Language System
19. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Personal Fable
Expository Advance Organizers
Content Validity
Portfolio
20. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
At-Risk Students
Morphemes
Babbling
Mastery Grading Scales
21. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Mnemonic Devices
Response Set
Construct Validity
Reciprocal Determinism
22. 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
Formative Evaluation
Direct instruction
Centration
Procedural Memory
23. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Planned Ignoring
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Encoding
Rehearsal
24. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Gender Role
Intrinsic Motivation
Working or Short-Term Memory
Postconventional Morality
25. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Growth Needs
Operant Behavior
Cooperative Learning
26. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Critical pedagogy
Observational Learning
Pervasive Retardation
Reciprocal Determinism
27. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Psychometrics
Achievement Tests
Mastery Grading Scales
Phonemes
28. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Transitivity
Learned Helplessness
Extensive Retardation
Engaged Time
29. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
Intrinsic Motivation
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Questioning Techniques
Generative learning
30. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Decay
Identity Diffusion
Motivation
Construct Validity
31. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Corporal Punishment
Criterion-Related Validity
Self-Regulation
Socioeconomic Status
32. 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
Normal Distribution
Generative learning
Retrieval
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
33. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Real Self-Efficacy
Symbolic Modeling
Problem Solving
34. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Group Training Experiences
Task Analysis
Internal Locus of Control
Reciprocal Determinism
35. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Symbolic Modeling
Extensive Retardation
Affective Objectives
Demonstrations
36. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Achievement Motivation
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Cultural Deficit Theories
37. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Social Cognition
Human Needs Theory
Community-Based Education Programs
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
38. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Time-Out
Invincibility Fallacy
39. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Luck
Encoding
Preconventional Morality
Foreclosure
40. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Conditioning
Pervasive Retardation
Character Education Programs
Reading
41. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Demonstrations
Specific Learning Outcomes
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
42. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Primary Reinforcer
Practical Intelligence
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Respondent Behavior
43. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Extrinsic Motivation
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Mild Retardation
Taxonomy
44. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Content Validity
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Affective Objectives
Mental Retardation
45. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Limited Retardation
Guided Discovery
Triarchic Theory
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
46. 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
Articulation Difficulties
Formative Evaluation
Steiner-Waldorf Education
47. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
IDEAL Strategy
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Operant Behavior
Performance-Based Test Strategies
48. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Procedural Memory
Gender Role
Centration
Expressive Disorders
49. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Direct Modeling
Practical Intelligence
Sensory Register
Visual Impairment
50. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Academic Learning Time
Construct Validity
Cognitive Objectives
Maintenance Bilingual Programs