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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Articulation Difficulties
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Exceptional Learners
Assertive Discipline
2. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Corporal Punishment
Derived Score
Mastery Learning
Inner Speech
3. 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.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Advance Organizer
Cognitive Objectives
Corporal Punishment
4. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Reciprocal Determinism
Instructional Theory
Elaborative Encoding
Respondent Behavior
5. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Transformation
Maturation
Conventional Morality
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
6. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Percentile Scores
Class Inclusion
Instruction
7. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Reversibility
Self-Determination Theory
Problem Solving
Achievement Tests
8. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Instructional Objectives
Conditioning
Heuristics
Type-R Conditioning
9. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Enrichment Programs
Deficiency Needs
Long-Term Memory
Semantics
10. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Motivation
Expressive Disorders
Difficulty of the Task
Test-Retest Reliability
11. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Phonology
Gender Role
Gender Identity
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
12. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Instructional Objectives
Phonology
Analogies
13. 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.
Invincibility Fallacy
Anxiety Disorders
Encoding
Episodic Memory
14. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Affective Objectives
Percentile Scores
Self-Regulation
Concept-Driven Models
15. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Postconventional Morality
Respondent Behavior
16. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Echoic Storage Register
Enrichment Programs
Response-Cost System
Centration
17. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Extrinsic Motivation
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Extensive Retardation
Character Education Programs
18. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Cultural Differences Theories
Feedback Loop
Jigsaw II
Visual Impairment
19. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Limited Retardation
Sensory Register
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Epilepsy
20. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Demonstrations
Enrichment Programs
Vicarious Learning
21. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Observational Learning
Achievement Motivation
Reciprocal Determinism
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
22. 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.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Primary Reinforcer
Response-Cost System
Luck
23. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Models (Observational Learning)
Perception
Law of Effect
Advance Organizer
24. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Pragmatics
Educational Psychology
Gender Role
25. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Organization
Educational Psychology
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
26. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Inattention
Luck
Phonics Approach
27. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Reliability
Respondent Behavior
Semantics
Advance Organizer
28. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done
Contingency Contracting
Specific Learning Outcomes
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Models (Observational Learning)
29. 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.
Models (Observational Learning)
Gender Identity
Mnemonic Devices
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
30. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Acronym
Behavioral Theory
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
31. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Personal Fable
Mastery Learning
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Data-Driven Models
32. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Language System
Task Analysis
Holophrastic Speech
Data-Driven Models
33. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Mnemonic Devices
Affective Objectives
Educational Goals
34. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Pedagogy
Holophrastic Speech
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
IDEAL Strategy
35. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Models (Instruction)
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Social Cognition
Whole Language Approach
36. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Keyword
Achievement Motivation
Psychomotor Objectives
Guided Discovery
37. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Sensory Register
Cognitive Objectives
Data-Driven Models
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
38. 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.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Data-Driven Models
Content Validity
Norm Group
39. The sensory register for visual information.
attrition
Iconic Storage Register
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Psychomotor Objectives
40. 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
41. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Behavior Disorders
Limited Retardation
T-Scores
42. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Language Experience Strategy
Stability
Descriptive Statistics
Contingency Contracting
43. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Limited Retardation
Ability
Response Set
Preconventional Morality
44. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Stability
Retrieval
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
45. 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
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Identity Achievement
Generative learning
Reliability
46. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Concept-Driven Models
Keyword
Type-S Conditioning
At-Risk Students
47. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Human Needs Theory
Predictive Validity
Simple Moral Education Programs
Critical pedagogy
48. 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).
Preconventional Morality
Retroactive Interference
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Cooing
49. 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.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Extensive Retardation
Tracking
Long-Term Memory
50. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Procedural Memory
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Tracking