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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Language System
Invincibility Fallacy
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
IDEAL Strategy
2. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Two-sigma problem
Feedback Loop
Reciprocal Teaching
Proactive Interference
3. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Test Bias
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Triarchic Theory
4. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Affective Objectives
Pragmatics
Stability
5. The use of physical punishment.
Corporal Punishment
Symbolic Modeling
Growth Needs
Mastery Learning
6. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Secondary Reinforcer
Gender Bias
Enrichment Programs
Cognitive Objectives
7. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.
Heuristics
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
attrition
Expository Advance Organizers
8. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Socioeconomic Status
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Development
Performance-Based Test Strategies
9. 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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10. 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
Sensory Register
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Retroactive Interference
Language System
11. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Derived Score
Heuristics
Episodic Memory
Psychometrics
12. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Generative learning
Schemata
Epilepsy
13. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Allocated Time
Enrichment Programs
14. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Internalization
Direct Modeling
General (or High-Road) Transfer
15. The total length of the class.
Scheduled Time
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Jigsaw II
Method of Loci
16. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Pragmatics
Reinforcer
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Percentile Scores
17. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Predictive Validity
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
18. 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.
Instructional Theory
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Steiner-Waldorf Education
attrition
19. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
General Exploratory Activities
Two-Store Model
Achievement Motivation
Mnemonic Devices
20. 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 (
Internal Locus of Control
Postconventional Morality
Assertive Discipline
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
21. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Expository Teaching
Type-R Conditioning
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Student Team Achievement Decisions
22. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Conditioning
Mastery Grading Scales
Working-Backward Strategy
Identity Achievement
23. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Behavioral Theory
Centration
T-Scores
Impulsivity
24. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Proactive Interference
Echoic Storage Register
Syntax
Norm Group
25. 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.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Class Inclusion
Transformation
Identity Diffusion
26. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Intermittent Retardation
Z-Scores
Demonstrations
Difficulty of the Task
27. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Contingency Contracting
Aptitude Tests
Personal Fable
Working or Short-Term Memory
28. 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.
Scheduled Time
Dyslexia
Criterion-Related Validity
Sensory Register
29. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Two-sigma problem
Social Cognition
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Foreclosure
30. 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.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Gifted and Talented Children
Object-Relations Theory
Pivotal Response Therapy
31. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Task Analysis
External Locus of Control
Attention
Vicarious Learning
32. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Algorithm
Educational Goals
Perception
33. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Generalized Reinforcer
Withitness
Comparative Advance Organizers
Pragmatics
34. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Secondary Reinforcer
Stability
Reinforcer
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
35. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Reversibility
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
36. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Automaticity
Subschemata
Static Assessment Approach
Rehearsal
37. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Forgetting
Exceptional Learners
Generative learning
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
38. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Percentile Scores
Critical pedagogy
Social Learning and Expectancy
39. 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
Babbling
Educational Psychology
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
40. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Derived Score
Whole Language Approach
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Ability
41. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Achievement Tests
Hyperactivity
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
42. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Static Assessment Approach
Human Needs Theory
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Limited Retardation
43. 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.
Shaping
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Critical pedagogy
Social Inferences
44. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Iconic Storage Register
Data-Driven Models
Moratorium
Academic Learning Time
45. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Cooing
Respondent Behavior
Behavior Disorders
Group Training Experiences
46. 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).
Two-Store Model
Cultural Differences Theories
Postconventional Morality
Preconventional Morality
47. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Corporal Punishment
Type-R Conditioning
Functional Fixedness
48. 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.
Self-Determination Theory
Articulation Difficulties
Withitness
Learning Disabilities
49. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Observational Learning
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Engaged Time
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
50. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Retrieval
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Predictive Validity
Gender Bias