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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Object-Relations Theory
Anxiety Disorders
Aptitude Tests
Difficulty of the Task
2. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Content Validity
Identity Diffusion
Retrieval
Cultural Deficit Theories
3. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Operant Behavior
Gender Bias
Organization
Generalized Reinforcer
4. 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.
Generative learning
Foreclosure
Shaping
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
5. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Self-Efficacy
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Cultural Deficit Theories
6. 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.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Generative learning
Criterion-Related Validity
Group Consequences
7. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Static Assessment Approach
Exhibition
Aptitude Tests
Conditioning
8. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Contingency Contracting
Extrinsic Motivation
Stability
Models (Instruction)
9. 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.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Heuristics
Preconventional Morality
Performance Grading Scales
10. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Pedagogy
Epilepsy
Phonology
Triarchic Theory
11. Internalized self-talk.
Inner Speech
Seriation
At-Risk Students
Preconventional Morality
12. 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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13. 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.
Semantic Memory
Response-Cost System
Teaching Efficacy
Severe and Profound Retardation
14. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Primary Reinforcer
Reinforcer
Maturation
Metacognition
15. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Impulsivity
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Mastery Grading Scales
General Exploratory Activities
16. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Achievement Motivation
Validity
Forgetting
Syntax
17. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Working or Short-Term Memory
Conventional Morality
Instructional Theory
18. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Keyword
Maturation
Visual Impairment
Language System
19. 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.
Expected Outcomes
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Instructional Theory
Individual and Small-Group Activities
20. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Static Assessment Approach
Tracking
Planned Ignoring
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
21. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Normal Distribution
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Conventional Morality
22. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Tracking
Cooing
Sensory Register
Attention
23. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Normal Distribution
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Withitness
Individual and Small-Group Activities
24. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Anxiety Disorders
Feedback Loop
Code Emphasis Strategy
Practical Intelligence
25. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Achievement Test Battery
Symbolic Modeling
Inclusion
Decay
26. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Motivation
Vicarious Learning
Extensive Retardation
Means-Ends Analysis
27. 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.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Object-Relations Theory
Babbling
Absolute Grading Standards
28. 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
Brainstorming
Generative learning
Concept-Driven Models
Formative Evaluation
29. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Test Bias
Attribution Theory
Hearing Impairment
Secondary Reinforcer
30. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Holophrastic Speech
Internal Locus of Control
Proactive Interference
Working or Short-Term Memory
31. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Scheduled Time
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Comparative Advance Organizers
Formative Evaluation
32. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
General Objectives
Proactive Interference
Active teaching
Human Needs Theory
33. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Achievement Tests
Identity Achievement
Phonology
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
34. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Effort
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Brainstorming
Identity Achievement
35. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Test Bias
Communication
Test-Retest Reliability
Self-Regulation
36. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Critical pedagogy
Fluency Disorders
Validity
37. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
Active teaching
Public Law 94-142
Performance Grading Scales
Classification
38. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Limited Retardation
Planned Ignoring
Intrinsic Motivation
Feedback Loop
39. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Conservation
Personal Fable
Cooing
Self-Efficacy
40. 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).
Pragmatics
Growth Needs
Shaping
Elaboration
41. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Critical pedagogy
Self-Efficacy
Normal Distribution
Forgetting
42. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Tracking
Mastery Learning
Maturation
Episodic Memory
43. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Phonics Approach
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Test-Retest Reliability
Data-Driven Models
44. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Feedback Loop
Language Experience Strategy
Personal Fable
45. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Internalization
Premack Principle
Affective Objectives
Synthesized Modeling
46. 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.
Echoic Storage Register
Practical Intelligence
Content Validity
Deficiency Needs
47. How capable one actually is.
Postconventional Morality
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Real Self-Efficacy
Difficulty of the Task
48. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Tracking
Expository Teaching
Identity Achievement
Advance Organizer
49. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Operant Behavior
Phonology
Cultural Differences Theories
50. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Transformation
Percentile Scores
Reinforcer