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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Self-Efficacy
Cooperative Learning
Exhibition
Advance Organizer
2. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Chunking
Allocated Time
Working-Backward Strategy
Reliability
3. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Identity
Moderate Retardation
Advance Organizer
Means-Ends Analysis
4. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Cooing
Whole Language Approach
Concept-Driven Models
5. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Procedural Memory
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Reading
6. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Automaticity
Data-Driven Models
Severe and Profound Retardation
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
7. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Normal Distribution
Algorithm
Socioeconomic Status
Standard Error of Estimate
8. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Intrinsic Motivation
Means-Ends Analysis
Data-Driven Models
Mental Retardation
9. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is unstable and external to the student.
Luck
Learning Disabilities
Face Validity
Deficiency Needs
10. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Derived Score
Sensory Register
Response-Cost System
11. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Responsibility
Primary Reinforcer
Clustering
Mental Retardation
12. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Brainstorming
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Hyperactivity
13. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Static Assessment Approach
Phonology
Psychomotor Objectives
Conventional Morality
14. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Maturation
Elaboration
Holophrastic Speech
Conventional Morality
15. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Long-Term Memory
Response Set
Direct Modeling
16. 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.
Learning Disabilities
Dyslexia
Active teaching
Language Experience Strategy
17. 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).
Type-R Conditioning
Preconventional Morality
Test Bias
Mental Retardation
18. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Questioning Techniques
Maturation
Assertive Discipline
Working-Backward Strategy
19. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Time-Out
Extrinsic Motivation
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Means-Ends Analysis
20. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Cooperative Learning
Summative Evaluation
Elaborative Encoding
Postconventional Morality
21. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Identity Diffusion
Retrieval
Models (Instruction)
Conditioning
22. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Self-Determination Theory
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Identity
23. The use of physical punishment.
Content Validity
Development
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Corporal Punishment
24. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Phonemes
Enrichment Programs
Group Consequences
Corporal Punishment
25. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Active teaching
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Concept-Driven Models
Mastery Learning
26. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Constructivism
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Descriptive Statistics
27. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Token Economy
Limited Retardation
Portfolio
Maturation
28. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Clustering
Preconventional Morality
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
29. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Premack Principle
Expected Outcomes
Decay
Expository Advance Organizers
30. Those one observes.
Mental Retardation
Problem Solving
Models (Observational Learning)
Jigsaw II
31. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Perception
Code Emphasis Strategy
Instructional Objectives
32. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Transfer of Information
Responsibility
Maturation
Development
33. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Subschemata
Criterion-Related Validity
Functional Fixedness
Dyslexia
34. The study of how students learn and develop.
Whole Language Approach
Inclusion
Educational Psychology
Expository Teaching
35. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Group Training Experiences
Impulsivity
Absolute Grading Standards
Extensive Retardation
36. 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.
Acronym
Teaching Efficacy
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Law of Effect
37. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Chunking
Identity
Allocated Time
Learning Disability
38. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
General Exploratory Activities
Long-Term Memory
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Chunking
39. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Gifted and Talented Children
Two-sigma problem
Standard Error of Estimate
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
40. 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.
Test Bias
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Code Emphasis Strategy
Heuristics
41. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Models (Instruction)
Extrinsic Motivation
Pragmatics
Centration
42. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Subschemata
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Language Experience Strategy
Time-Out
43. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Teaching Efficacy
Intermittent Retardation
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
44. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Motivation
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Algorithm
45. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Extrinsic Motivation
Pedagogy
Self-Determination Theory
46. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
Holophrastic Speech
Transformation
Mental Retardation
Perception
47. 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.
Critical pedagogy
Identity Diffusion
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Descriptive Statistics
48. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Two-sigma problem
Pervasive Retardation
49. 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.
Growth Needs
Criterion-Related Validity
Semantics
Problem Solving
50. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Reversibility
Standard Error of Estimate
Character Education Programs
Extensive Retardation