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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Public Law 94-142
Two-sigma problem
Cultural Differences Theories
2. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Expository Advance Organizers
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Difficulty of the Task
Cooing
3. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Questioning Techniques
Expected Outcomes
Predictive Validity
Norm-Referenced Testing
4. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Teaching Efficacy
Pervasive Retardation
Feedback Loop
Norm Group
5. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Synthesized Modeling
Moderate Retardation
Withitness
6. 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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7. 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.
Babbling
Pervasive Retardation
General Objectives
Practical Intelligence
8. 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.
Symbolic Modeling
Inner Speech
Gifted and Talented Children
Mental Retardation
9. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Test Bias
Hearing Impairment
Percentile Scores
Perception
10. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Difficulty of the Task
Critical pedagogy
Models (Instruction)
11. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Two-Store Model
Time-Out
12. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Instruction
Functional Fixedness
Clustering
Extensive Retardation
13. 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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14. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Normal Distribution
Gender Role
Achievement Tests
Feedback Loop
15. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Synthetic Intelligence
Moderate Retardation
Internal Locus of Control
Character Education Programs
16. 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.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Allocated Time
Summative Evaluation
Specific Learning Outcomes
17. 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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18. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Clustering
Articulation Difficulties
19. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Normal Distribution
Instructional Theory
Conditioning
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
20. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Semantics
Code Emphasis Strategy
Problem Solving
21. 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
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Psychometrics
Cognitive Objectives
22. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Mnemonic Devices
Behavior Disorders
Fluency Disorders
Episodic Memory
23. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Luck
Inclusion
Accelerated Programs
24. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Postconventional Morality
Questioning Techniques
Retroactive Interference
Transitivity
25. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Whole Language Approach
Moratorium
Planned Ignoring
Reversibility
26. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Confidence Interval
Concurrent Validity
Exceptional Learners
External Locus of Control
27. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Real Self-Efficacy
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Pervasive Retardation
Predictive Validity
28. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
T-Scores
Active teaching
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Educational Psychology
29. 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.
Semantic Memory
Identity Diffusion
Communication
Working-Backward Strategy
30. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Confidence Interval
Whole Language Approach
Metacognition
Moratorium
31. 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.
Self-Efficacy
Shaping
Algorithm
Norm-Referenced Testing
32. 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.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Organization
Conservation
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
33. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Reciprocal Teaching
Socioeconomic Status
Derived Score
Group Consequences
34. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Clustering
Anxiety Disorders
Forgetting
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
35. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Behavior Disorders
Tracking
Phonics Approach
Hearing Impairment
36. 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.
Development
Conservation
Data-Driven Models
Token Economy
37. The total length of the class.
Scheduled Time
Motivation
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Self-Regulation
38. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Law of Effect
Achievement Tests
Behavior Disorders
Dynamic Assessment Approach
39. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Expected Outcomes
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Retroactive Interference
40. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Models (Observational Learning)
Metacognition
Operant Behavior
Brainstorming
41. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Problem Solving
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Gender Role
Holophrastic Speech
42. 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.
Scheduled Time
Social Cognition
Identity
Self-Determination Theory
43. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Character Education Programs
Concept-Driven Models
Validity
Gifted and Talented Children
44. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Conditioning
Guided Discovery
Moderate Retardation
Absolute Grading Standards
45. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Demonstrations
Group Training Experiences
Shaping
Motivation
46. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Gender Identity
Character
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
47. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Educational Goals
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Primary Reinforcer
Inner Speech
48. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Community-Based Education Programs
Descriptive Statistics
Simple Moral Education Programs
Moratorium
49. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Articulation Difficulties
Type-S Conditioning
Anxiety Disorders
50. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Psychomotor Objectives
Learning Disabilities
Norm-Referenced Testing
Transitivity