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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Motivation
Criterion-Related Validity
Babbling
Reversibility
2. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Whole Language Approach
Vicarious Learning
3. 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
Models (Observational Learning)
Pedagogy
Z-Scores
Generative learning
4. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Exceptional Learners
Norm Group
Gender Role
Object-Relations Theory
5. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Percentile Scores
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Reciprocal Teaching
Episodic Memory
6. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Gender Bias
Cognitive Objectives
Mastery Learning
Respondent Behavior
7. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Time-Out
Symbolic Modeling
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Guided Discovery
8. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Identity Diffusion
Analytical Intelligence
Primary Reinforcer
Real Self-Efficacy
9. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Taxonomy
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Iconic Storage Register
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
10. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Semantic Memory
Extrinsic Motivation
Dyslexia
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
11. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Questioning Techniques
Organization
Mental Retardation
External Locus of Control
12. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Transitivity
Token Economy
Morphemes
Feedback Loop
13. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Learning Disabilities
Moratorium
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Transformation
14. 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.
Norm Group
Voice Disorders
Formative Evaluation
Object-Relations Theory
15. 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
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Attribution Theory
Attention
16. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl
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17. 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
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Transformation
Self-Efficacy
Mastery Learning
18. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Formative Evaluation
Models (Observational Learning)
Extensive Retardation
General (or High-Road) Transfer
19. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Shaping
Vicarious Learning
Specific Learning Outcomes
Dual Coding Hypothesis
20. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Pragmatics
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Gifted and Talented Children
21. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Inclusion
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Expected Outcomes
Psychomotor Objectives
22. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Synthesized Modeling
Babbling
Psychometrics
Conservation
23. Relating current information with previous learning.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Analogies
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Public Law 94-142
24. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Reliability
Group Consequences
25. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Models (Observational Learning)
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Mental Retardation
Method of Loci
26. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Mastery Learning
Response-Cost System
Cognitive Objectives
Holophrastic Speech
27. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Syntax
Maturation
Simple Moral Education Programs
Rehearsal
28. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Conservation
Construct Validity
Chunking
Simple Moral Education Programs
29. 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
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Object-Relations Theory
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Social Cognition
30. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Clustering
Human Needs Theory
Norm-Referenced Testing
Forgetting
31. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Practical Intelligence
Cooing
Summative Evaluation
32. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Heuristics
Premack Principle
Internal Locus of Control
33. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Normal Distribution
Critical pedagogy
Chunking
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
34. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Social Inferences
Metacognition
Operant Behavior
Generative learning
35. 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
Schemata
Group Consequences
Generalized Reinforcer
36. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Reciprocal Determinism
attrition
Phonics Approach
Type-R Conditioning
37. 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.
Schemata
Synthetic Intelligence
Practical Intelligence
Criterion-Related Validity
38. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Hearing Impairment
Impulsivity
Extensive Retardation
Brainstorming
39. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Behavioral Theory
Reliability
Difficulty of the Task
Proactive Interference
40. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Holophrastic Speech
Inclusion
Academic Learning Time
Gifted and Talented Children
41. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Community-Based Education Programs
Behavior Disorders
Predictive Validity
42. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Moratorium
Mastery Grading Scales
Exceptional Learners
Maturation
43. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Keyword
Severe and Profound Retardation
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Achievement Tests
44. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Moratorium
Intermittent Retardation
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Public Law 94-142
45. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Development
Test-Retest Reliability
Automaticity
Heuristics
46. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Test Bias
Descriptive Grading Scales
Perception
Self-Efficacy
47. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.
Synthetic Intelligence
Absolute Grading Standards
Tracking
Identity
48. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Token Economy
Construct Validity
Algorithm
Practical Intelligence
49. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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50. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Rehearsal
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Premack Principle
Models (Instruction)