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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Gender Role
Self-Determination Theory
Engaged Time
2. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Assertive Discipline
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Constructivism
3. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Learning Disabilities
Method of Loci
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Voice Disorders
4. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Human Needs Theory
Rehearsal
Clustering
5. 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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6. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Psychometrics
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
7. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Vicarious Learning
Procedural Memory
Psychomotor Objectives
8. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Subschemata
Premack Principle
Direct Modeling
Constructivism
9. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Jigsaw II
Mastery Grading Scales
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
10. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Expository Advance Organizers
Subschemata
Proactive Interference
Transfer of Information
11. The study of how students learn and develop.
Advance Organizer
Educational Psychology
Observational Learning
Psychomotor Objectives
12. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Perception
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Percentile Scores
Schemata
13. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Human Needs Theory
Retrieval
Criterion-Related Validity
14. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Teaching Efficacy
Moratorium
Problem Solving
Validity
15. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Articulation Difficulties
Questioning Techniques
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Expected Outcomes
16. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Organization
Type-R Conditioning
Group Consequences
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
17. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Reinforcer
Voice Disorders
Personal Fable
Comparative Advance Organizers
18. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Internal Locus of Control
Reinforcer
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Clustering
19. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Limited Retardation
Episodic Memory
Reinforcer
Performance Grading Scales
20. 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).
Formative Evaluation
Direct instruction
Instructional Objectives
Deficiency Needs
21. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Guided Discovery
Active teaching
Response Set
Models (Instruction)
22. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Anxiety Disorders
Educational Psychology
Visual Impairment
23. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Metacognition
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Heuristics
Instructional Objectives
24. 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.
Reciprocal Determinism
Cultural Differences Theories
Learning Disabilities
Critical pedagogy
25. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
At-Risk Students
Reciprocal Determinism
Confidence Interval
26. 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.
Gender Role
Moratorium
External Locus of Control
Seriation
27. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Identity Achievement
Jigsaw II
Pivotal Response Therapy
Law of Effect
28. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Type-S Conditioning
Group Consequences
Phonemes
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
29. 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.
Decay
Elaborative Encoding
Absolute Grading Standards
Shaping
30. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Severe and Profound Retardation
General Exploratory Activities
Procedural Memory
Communication
31. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Jigsaw II
Hearing Impairment
Problem Solving
Formative Evaluation
32. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Specific Learning Outcomes
Character
Internal Locus of Control
33. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Whole Language Approach
Heuristics
Identity Achievement
Simple Moral Education Programs
34. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Chunking
Invincibility Fallacy
Learning Disabilities
Identity Achievement
35. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Visual Impairment
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Psychomotor Objectives
36. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Derived Score
Cultural Deficit Theories
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
37. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Norm Group
Synthetic Intelligence
Episodic Memory
Moderate Retardation
38. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Academic Learning Time
Norm Group
Shaping
39. 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.
Descriptive Statistics
Task Analysis
Code Emphasis Strategy
Teaching Efficacy
40. 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
Subschemata
Inclusion
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
41. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Reliability
Token Economy
Instructional Objectives
42. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Mental Retardation
Psychometrics
Group Training Experiences
Working-Backward Strategy
43. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Phonemes
Working or Short-Term Memory
Forgetting
Instruction
44. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
T-Scores
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Working or Short-Term Memory
Clustering
45. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Pervasive Retardation
Cooing
Extrinsic Motivation
Epilepsy
46. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Instructional Objectives
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Group Training Experiences
Personal Fable
47. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Constructivism
Organization
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Pragmatics
48. 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
Learning Disabilities
Type-R Conditioning
Self-Efficacy
Planned Ignoring
49. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Self-Determination Theory
Educational Psychology
Reversibility
Achievement Test Battery
50. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Extensive Retardation
Contingency Contracting
Concept-Driven Models
Retrieval