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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Concurrent Validity
Retroactive Interference
Heuristics
Cultural Differences Theories
2. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
T-Scores
Descriptive Grading Scales
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Cognitive Objectives
3. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Vicarious Learning
General Exploratory Activities
Achievement Tests
Encoding
4. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Summative Evaluation
Receptive Language Disorders
Instructional Objectives
Gender Bias
5. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Academic Learning Time
Fluency Disorders
Reinforcer
Receptive Language Disorders
6. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Fluency Disorders
Long-Term Memory
7. The sensory register for visual information.
Premack Principle
Iconic Storage Register
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Human Needs Theory
8. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Pivotal Response Therapy
Two-sigma problem
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Effort
9. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.
General Objectives
IDEAL Strategy
Conservation
Working or Short-Term Memory
10. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Analytical Intelligence
Subschemata
External Locus of Control
Triarchic Theory
11. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Transitivity
Proactive Interference
Elaboration
Behavior Disorders
12. 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.
IDEAL Strategy
Community-Based Education Programs
Identity Diffusion
Jigsaw II
13. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
At-Risk Students
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Cultural Differences Theories
Identity
14. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Vicarious Learning
At-Risk Students
Community-Based Education Programs
Constructivism
15. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Allocated Time
16. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.
Comparative Advance Organizers
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Long-Term Memory
17. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Functional Fixedness
Corporal Punishment
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Perception
18. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Group Training Experiences
Cultural Deficit Theories
Observational Learning
19. 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.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Ability
Cognitive Objectives
Seriation
20. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Epilepsy
Transitivity
Ability
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
21. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Reliability
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Learning Disabilities
22. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Decay
T-Scores
Receptive Language Disorders
23. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Reinforcer
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Planned Ignoring
24. 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.
Synthesized Modeling
Phonology
Growth Needs
Gifted and Talented Children
25. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Mastery Grading Scales
Forgetting
Encoding
Models (Instruction)
26. 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).
Visual Impairment
Preconventional Morality
At-Risk Students
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
27. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Cultural Deficit Theories
Construct Validity
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
28. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Attention
Schemata
Jigsaw II
Stability
29. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Clustering
30. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Guided Discovery
Postconventional Morality
Means-Ends Analysis
Identity Diffusion
31. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Achievement Tests
Generalized Reinforcer
Data-Driven Models
Perceived Self-Efficacy
32. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Primary Reinforcer
Inattention
Instructional Theory
33. 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
Premack Principle
Babbling
General Objectives
34. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Intermittent Retardation
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Articulation Difficulties
Secondary Reinforcer
35. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Brainstorming
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Elaborative Encoding
Working-Backward Strategy
36. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Construct Validity
Triarchic Theory
Gender Role
General Objectives
37. 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).
Critical pedagogy
Internalization
Transfer of Information
Individual and Small-Group Activities
38. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Stability
Reliability
Conditioning
Phonology
39. 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.
Impulsivity
Gender Role
Norm Group
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
40. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Attention
Specific Learning Outcomes
Corporal Punishment
Perceived Self-Efficacy
41. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Responsibility
Keyword
Retroactive Interference
Classification
42. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Real Self-Efficacy
Triarchic Theory
Observational Learning
Decay
43. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Affective Objectives
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Clustering
Learning Disabilities
44. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Instructional Theory
Type-R Conditioning
Working or Short-Term Memory
45. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
Growth Needs
IDEAL Strategy
Identity Diffusion
Affective Objectives
46. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Guided Discovery
Two-Store Model
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
47. 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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48. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Questioning Techniques
Keyword
Descriptive Grading Scales
49. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Content Validity
Predictive Validity
Moderate Retardation
Real Self-Efficacy
50. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Validity
Academic Learning Time
Visual Impairment
Personal Fable